42, HIGH STREET
42, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217429
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- 42, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 42, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217429
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- 42, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 42, 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:
- 42, 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:
- TL 35881 14287
Details
WARE TOWN
TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/103 (North side) No.42
GV II
Commercial premises, with living accommodation above, now offices. Mid C19. Stucco over brickwork, Welsh slated roof. 3 storeys. First floor has 2 sash windows with divided glazing, with panelled surrounds, with paterae, and projecting moulded cornices; second floor has 2 lower sash windows with panelled surrounds. Panelled pilasters at left and right ends, with Corinthian capitals. Cavetto moulded eaves cornice. Ground floor has elaborate C19 shopfront, contained by stucco pilasters at side, each surmounted by foliated capitals, and coved console brackets, with upper part forming base for pilasters at side of first and second floors. Modern brick stallrisers, shopfront, and left hand side entrance door, framed by reeded pilasters, with moulded cills, with cornices. Fascia surmounted by dentil frieze and moulded cornice. Recessed central modern entrance door, left hand door to offices above. Rear elevation faces East Street. 3 storeys. C20 brick infill on ground floor, stucco above, with 3 C20 sash windows on first and second floors. (Forrester H: Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 45).
Listing NGR: TL3588114287
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412340
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Forrester, H, Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 45
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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