NUMBERS 31 AND 31A BALDOCK STREET
31 AND 31A, BALDOCK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221539
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- NUMBERS 31 AND 31A BALDOCK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 31 AND 31A, BALDOCK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221539
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- NUMBERS 31 AND 31A BALDOCK STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 31 AND 31A, 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:
- 31 AND 31A, 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:
- TL3558314518
Details
TL3514NE
829-1/7/35
14/03/74
WARE TOWN
BALDOCK STREET
(West side)
Nos.31 AND 31A
GV
II
House, now shop, originally one building with No.29 (qv). C17,
refronted and much altered C19 and C20. Timber-framed, yellow
brick front. Machine tiled roof behind parapet with stone
coping and dentil brick cornice. To left, shared with No.29,
is tall red chimneystack, with 4 clustered octagonal shafts,
and square plan oversailing courses and caps.
2 storeys. First floor has 3 modern windows, replacing former
sashes, with top hung casement vents, in reveals under rubbed
flat arches. C19 shopfront on ground floor, with pilasters,
consoles, cornice and former blind box. Recessed canted
entrance with twin leaf modern glazed doors, and plate glass
closed windows, with pierced cast-iron strip ventilators
above, moulded timber cills over cement stallrisers below.
Arched entrance at right to twitchell. Long rear outshoots
partly rebuilt formed Giffin's Yard in C19, one of the most
crowded urban housing groups.
(Forrester H: Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware:
Hitchin: 1964-: 49).
Listing NGR: TL3558314518
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412271
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Forrester, H, Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 49
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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