96 96A, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217437
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: 96 96A, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: 96 96A, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217437
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Sep-1995
List Entry Name:: 96 96A, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 96 96A, HIGH STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 96 96A, 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 35718 14360

Details

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/132 (North side) 14/03/74 Nos.96 AND 96A (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET No.96)

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House, later shop, with offices above. C17, altered C19. Timber-framed, colourwashed plaster and stucco, old tiled roof with gables facing High Street and West Street (No.96A accessible from West Street). Tall red brick chimney at right with yellow brick stack behind. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. 3 bay structure, part of encroachment on west market place. 2 first floor C19 flush-set sash windows with divided glazing, early C20 casement window to attic. Ground floor has C19 shopfront with timber pilasters at side and framing central entrance. Timber stallrisers, with arcaded windows above, timber fascia, with moulded cornice. Rear elevation facing West Street numbered 96A, stucco faced with masonry lining. 2 storeys, with 2 mullion and transom windows, ground and first floor, slightly recessed on ground floor, and recessed door, with heavy timber surround, and raised door hood with moulded fascia, console brackets, and moulded broken cornice, with small dentil frieze. Attic corbelled out on timber console brackets, with timber bressumer exposed, below stucco faced gable, with one central C19 mullion and transom window with opening casements. Lowered C17 narrow red brick chimneystack at left with 2 terracotta pots. (Edwards E and Perman D: Ware's Past In Pictures: Ware: 1991-: 84).

Listing NGR: TL3571814360

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Legacy System number:: 412368
Legacy System:: LBS

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Edwards, , Perman, , Wares Past in Pictures, (1991), 84

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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.