2, BLUECOAT YARD
2, BLUECOAT YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1221594
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 2, BLUECOAT YARD
- Statutory Address:
- 2, BLUECOAT YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1221594
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 2, BLUECOAT YARD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, BLUECOAT YARD
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:
- 2, BLUECOAT YARD
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:
- TL3590114349
Details
TL3514SE
829-1/9/45
08/05/50
WARE TOWN
BLUECOAT YARD
(West side)
No.2
GV
II*
House. C17. Timber-framed now plastered, pebbledashed and
colourwashed, old tiled roof with 2 gabled casement dormers.
2 storeys and attics. Ground and first floors, two 3-light
casement windows with glazing bars, central door in moulded
architrave surround, coved plaster eaves cornice. This
structure is different both from those which pre-date the
Christ's Hospital acquisition of Bluecoat Yard in 1685 (The
Old Stables and No.1 (qv) and the terrace specially built as
`nurse cottages' (Nos 3-12 (qv); the house has a comparatively
wide frontage and is only one room deep, although its general
appearance is similar to Nos 3-12 indicating remodelling of an
existing structure to give an overall visual unity.
(Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England): An
Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire:
London: 1910-: 230; Ware Tithe Map: 1845-; Ware 25" to 1 Mile.
Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; The
Victoria History of the County of Hertford: London: 1912-:
381; Christ's Hospital Archives Map: 1685-; Christ's Hospital
Archives, Building Accounts: 1680-1697; East Herts
Archaeological Society Transactions 1932-33: Lee WH: The Old
Blue-coat School Ware: Hertford: 1934-: 333-7; Rowe V Dr: The
Bluecoat Children in Ware 1564-1761: Ware Society: 1983-;
Bluecoat Yard Residents Association: More about Place House
and Bluecoat Yard: Ware: 1988-).
Listing NGR: TL3590114349
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412280
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
More about Place House and Bluecoat Yard, (1988)
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 381
Lee, W H, The Old Bluecoat School Ware, (1934), 333-7
Transactions of the East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society in Transactions of the East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society, (1932)
Transactions of the East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society in Transactions of the East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society, (1933)
Ware Society Newsletter in Ware Society Newsletter, (1983)
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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