28 High Street and 17 East Street
17, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217426
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 28 High Street and 17 East Street
- Statutory Address:
- 17, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217426
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 28 High Street and 17 East Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 17, EAST STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 28, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 17, EAST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 28, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ware
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3591614276
Details
TL3514SE
829-1/9/92
14/03/74
WARE TOWN
HIGH STREET
(North side)
No.28
GV
II
Includes: No.17 EAST STREET.
Shop, formerly with living accommodation above, now offices.
Early C19. Stucco, hipped roof, with modern concrete
interlocking pantiles replacing Welsh slate.
3 storeys, eaves cornice, first and second floor have 2 sash
windows, with divided glazing, flush set with exposed boxes.
Modern shopfront and boxed out fascia, on ground floor. Paired
multi-shafted cast-iron columns either side of central
entrance door appear to survive from an earlier C19 shopfront.
North elevation faces East Street. 3 storeys. Modern
rebuilding of ground floor with masonry lined stucco and
modern sash window and door in timber pilaster surround. Above
deep flat fascia, building is yellow brick, C19, with one sash
window, with glazing bars, recessed on first and second
floors. Mono-pitched pantiled roof behind brick parapet. This
projects from 3-storey form of building facing High Street and
is numbered as 17 East Street.
Listing NGR: TL3591614276
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412329
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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