Crib House
CRIB HOUSE, 40, CRIB STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222140
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Crib House
- Statutory Address:
- CRIB HOUSE, 40, CRIB STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222140
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Crib House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRIB HOUSE, 40, CRIB 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:
- CRIB HOUSE, 40, CRIB 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 35752 14557
Details
WARE TOWN
TL3514NE CRIB STREET 829-1/7/63 (East side) 14/03/74 No.40 Crib House (Formerly Listed as: CRIB STREET No.40)
GV II
House, 2 structures, later public house. C16 and C17, with C19 alterations, restored and part rebuilt 1990. Right hand shares structure with No.38 (qv), timber-framed, with smooth render finish to front, side and rear dark stained weatherboarding, old tiled roof, brick chimneystack shared with No.38. 2 storeys, first floor single-light sash, ground floor triple-light sash, both with glazing bars and flush set. 4 flush panel door in plain wooden reveal and surround, elaborate cut console brackets to hood. To left is earlier structure, C16, timber-framed and smooth rendered, with steeper pitch old tiled roof. 2 storeys, first floor jettied on cut wooden bracket, and beam ends exposed, with one flush set sash window with exposed boxes and glazing bars. Ground floor one sliding Yorkshire casement, flush set with glazing bars. Both windows appear to be reproductions of earlier windows, installed during 1990 restoration. 2-storeyed rear extension built 1990. Together with No.38, this was The Red Cow Public House during the C19 until the 1930s. (Hunt EM: The History of Ware: Hertford: 1986-1946: 99; Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England): An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire: London: 1910-: 230; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 21; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-).
Listing NGR: TL3575214557
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412299
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hunt, E M, The History of Ware 1986-1946, (1986), 99
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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