Details
WARE TOWN
TL3514SE EAST STREET
829-1/9/73 (North side)
14/03/74 Nos.1A, 2, 2A AND 2B
GV II
House, now subdivided with ground floor shops. C17, or
earlier, with early C18 front, and C19 and C20 shopfronts.
Rainwater head in centre of front dated 1709, with the
initials J D, of the owner, Jonathan Dickinson. 2 further
dated rainwater heads; one, 1740 on the Bluecoat Yard side,
and the other, 1742, at the back facing New Road. Old tiled
roof behind parapet, rear slope partly renewed in machine
tiles, hipped roof to rear of No.2B facing Bluecoat Yard. One
casement dormer above No.1A, one dormer with modern
small-paned window, under red tiled hipped roof, facing
Bluecoat Yard. Timber-framed, with facade of dark red bricks
with cherry red dressing, plinth, first floor plat band, with
moulded base, stepped up at each end under the first window.
Second band also with moulded base, above first floor windows,
parapet with stone coping.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics. 7 first floor windows, 2
dummy recesses and 5 sashes with glazing bars, slightly
recessed with exposed boxes and architrave surrounds, under
rubbed flat arches, alternatively with plain and scalloped
soffits. 3 early and mid C20 shopfronts and mid C20 glazed
entrance door on ground floor. Rear of No.2B facing Bluecoat
Yard has C19 yellow brick casing, sash windows with exposed
boxes, and wood moulded eaves cornice.
INTERIORS contain remains of early C18 panelling, with some
fireplace surrounds, and cornices with dentil friezes. Rear of
No.1A has tall parapet concealing roof, with first floor
semicircular arch with central Portland stone keystone, and
flanking flat arches for large Palladian or Venetian window,
bricked up with red and yellow brick c1830, and small central
sash window, with glazing bars, inserted beneath segmental
arch. Rear outshoots, former servants' wing, behind No.2,
separately numbered as Nos 5, 5A, 7 and 7A New Road (qv).
HISTORICAL NOTE: development of this East Street site
originally associated with Place House (qv), which lies to the
north. In mid C17 acquired by the Dickinson family, London
maltsters, bankers and brewers, who rebuilt the property early
C18, and remained in residence until 1830. The building
deteriorated during the late C19 and early C20 when used as a
`tramps boarding house', becoming shops and a doctor's surgery
after World War II.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N (rev. Cherry B):
Hertfordshire: Harmondsworth: 1977-: 379; Perman D: Ware UD.
List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-:
23).
Listing NGR: TL3593614294
