Numbers 1-8 St Mary's Almshouses
1-8 ST MARY'S ALMSHOUSES, CRIB STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222195
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1-8 St Mary's Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- 1-8 ST MARY'S ALMSHOUSES, CRIB STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222195
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1-8 St Mary's Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-8 ST MARY'S ALMSHOUSES, 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:
- 1-8 ST MARY'S ALMSHOUSES, 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:
- TL3572014484
Details
TL3514SE
829-1/9/72
WARE TOWN
CRIB STREET
(West side)
Nos.1-8 (consec) St Mary's Almshouses
GV
II
Almshouses. Dated 1861 replacing C17 buildings. George Hitch,
designer, James Hitch builder. Plum-red brick, Flemish bond,
with stucco plinth, quoins and window surrounds. Old tiled
roofs with central band of fish-scale tiles and Welsh slate
margins at eaves. Red brick chimneystacks.
Wings on Church Street and Crib Street, entered diagonally at
the corner, via rear courtyard with galleries supported on
cast-iron surround with long and short quoins, head surround
to 3-light window above. Inscribed tablet above 'rebuilt AD
1861 and low gabled parapet with artificial stone kneelers and
coping. Wings have stucco long and short quoins, and 3-light
windows with long and short quoined surrounds, 2 windows
ground and first floors facing Church Street; 4 facing Crib
Street. All windows renewed in 1980s with aluminium frames and
plain glazing with planted lead strips. The courtyard within
backs on to The Manor House, No.9 Church Street (qv).
Almshouses for widows, established early C17, administered by
Ware Charity Trustees under an indenture of 1612. The
buildings form a focal point in the street picture of Church
Street and Crib Street.
(Hunt EM: The History of Ware: Hertford: 1986-1946: 65; Perman
D: 600 Yrs of Charity. A Brief History of the Ware Charity
Trustees: Ware: 1991-: 20-21, 24-26, 47; Ware 25" to 1 Mile.
Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; The
Victoria History of the County of Hertford: London: 1912-:
381).
Listing NGR: TL3572014484
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412307
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Perman, D, 600 Years of Charity: A Brief History of the Ware Charity Trustees, (1991), 20-21
Perman, D, 600 Years of Charity: A Brief History of the Ware Charity Trustees, (1991), 24-26
Perman, D, 600 Years of Charity: A Brief History of the Ware Charity Trustees, (1991), 47
Hunt, E M, The History of Ware 1986-1946, (1986)
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 381
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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