27 High Street and attached rear outshoot and barn
27 High Street and attached rear outshoot and barn, High Street, Ware
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222405
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 27 High Street and attached rear outshoot and barn
- Statutory Address:
- 27 High Street and attached rear outshoot and barn, High Street, Ware
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222405
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- 27 High Street and attached rear outshoot and barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- 27 High Street and attached rear outshoot and barn, High Street, Ware
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:
- 27 High Street and attached rear outshoot and barn, High Street, Ware
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 35881 14253
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 19 November 2021 to amend the description and to reformat the text to current standards
TL3514SE
829-1/9/91
WARE TOWN
HIGH STREET (South side)
No.27 and attached rear outshoot and barn
(Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET, No.27)
08/05/50
GV
II
Inn and attached outbuildings, now bank. Late C16/early C17, with C18 and C20 alterations. Timber-framed, rusticated stucco, early C19 refronting old tiled roof edged with Welsh slates. Left hand bay of structure, beyond carriageway, now included with No.25 (qv).
EXTERIOR: two storeys, plinth, plat band at first floor level. Four first floor sash windows with glazing bars, flush-set with exposed boxes. Carriageway on left of ground floor, mid C20 ground floor window with glazing bars, entrance on right up four stone steps; eight fielded panelled door, with rectangular fanlight, moulded architrave surround with consoles and open pediment above. Long rear outshoot, timber-framed, masonry lined stucco over brick (east), plaster moulded bressumer above first floor windows, and moulded eaves cornice (west). Beyond is barn, timber-framed with red brick ground floor, weatherboarding above and old tiled roof.
INTERIOR of No.27 contains moulded early C18 wood cornices and C17 panelling, some reset, on first floor. This is painted white but in 2021 evidence was found for what appears to be a complete suite of contemporary c.1600 wall paintings on at least two walls. Roof over front block of clasped purlin construction with windbracing and collars. The roof over the rear outshoot has purlins housed in heavy section principal rafters curved near base, and supported on a substantial plate which does not coincide with the external wall.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the site has been identified with historic inns of Ware. It adjoins, and may have been used at times, by The George Inn. In 1599 it is recorded that The Horn Inn stood next to The George Inn, and in C18 and C19 was known as The White House Inn.
(Hunt EM: The History of Ware: Hertford: 1986-1946: 116; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 27; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-).
Listing NGR: TL3588114253
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412328
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hunt, E M, The History of Ware 1986-1946, (1986), 116
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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