28, BALDOCK STREET
28, BALDOCK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221525
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 28, BALDOCK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 28, BALDOCK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221525
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 28, BALDOCK STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 28, BALDOCK 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:
- 28, BALDOCK 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 35604 14576
Details
WARE TOWN
TL3514NE BALDOCK STREET 829-1/7/33 (East side) 14/03/74 No.28
GV II
House, now offices. Late C15/early C16, altered C17 restored internally 1981. Timber-framed, stucco faced, overhanging eaves with old tiled roof, brick chimneystacks at left hand side on ridge, and behind at right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Twin canted bay windows, ground and first floor, with wood casements renewed 1981, and small high level window at left below eaves. Modern half-glazed central entrance door under C18 cut bracketed flat hood. Parapeted north gable is remnant of party wall to adjoining properties demolished 1960s. 2 storey plastered rear outshoot with old tile roof. INTERIOR: the 1981 restoration revealed a remarkably complete 2-bay timber frame, with close, heavy studding built off a sole plate, originally laid on earth, but later underbuilt in brick, girding beams and heavy floor joists, and wall plates. There are braced tie-beam trusses supporting a 2-bay crown-post roof, with fore and aft bracing to the collar purlin. The lower sections of the rafters, and collars are now exposed internally. The wall plates and girding plates contain evidence for 6 wooden diamond mullion unglazed windows, with associated shutter grooves. One window survives complete in the rear south bay of the upper storey. Evidence in south bay for ladder stair, modern staircase in rear outshoot. Chimney and fireplaces added to north in C17. (Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; Forrester H: Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 42; Ware Society Newsletter: Perman D: Conservation Notes - 28 Baldock Street: Ware: 1982-: 8-9).
Listing NGR: TL3560414576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412269
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Forrester, H, Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964)
Ware Society Newsletter in Ware Society Newsletter, (1982), 8-9
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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