81, HIGH STREET

81, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1217435
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:
81, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
81, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1217435
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:
81, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
81, 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
81, 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 35686 14343

Details

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/125 (South side) 14/03/74 No.81

GV II

House, now shops with flat above. 1833, dated on rainwater head. Built for Ware Gas Light and Coke Company, ground floor rebuilt 1954. Yellow stock brick, Welsh slated roof, with 2 brick chimneys with square terracotta pots. 2 storeys. 3 first floor sash windows with glazing bars in reveals under flat arches. Ground floor has Neo-Georgian shopfront with entablatures, central pediment above Doric pilasters enclosing recessed entrance, with twin leaded glazed doors under semicircular fanlight with radiating glazing bars and moulded archivolt. Site of The Checker Inn, first recorded 1509. The C19 rebuilding incorporates some reused timber, as indicated by a moulded beam, used as a purlin in the roof of the rear outshoot. (Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 35).

Listing NGR: TL3568414328

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
412361
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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