34, HIGH STREET
34, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222491
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 34, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 34, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222491
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 34, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 34, HIGH 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:
- 34, HIGH 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 35901 14278
Details
WARE TOWN
TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/98 (North side) 14/03/74 No.34
GV II
House, subsequently shop with living accommodation, now restaurant. C17 altered early C19. Timber-framed with stucco facing. Roof hipped, with old tiles, and 1 segmentally headed casement dormer, above parapet. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, basement and attics. 2 storey canted bay window, with first floor casement windows at C20 replacement for former sashes. Moulded frame at right on first floor for trader's name. Moulded band runs across facade and around windows. Fascia, and cornice, the latter with mouldings cut back, and parapet. Ground floor has C19 projecting canted bay window, former shopfront, with modern cellar light below. Moulded cill and mullion to plate glass windows, with leaded lights above moulded transom. Panelled pilasters, with recessed reeded bands at either side, moulded timber cornice. Long cut ogee-profiled 'blinkers', formerly flanking blinds, at either side of the 3 main faces of the shop window. Half glazed 2 panel door on right in reveal with reeded quarter columns, fanlight with radiating pointed-arched glazing bars. Ornamental cast-iron early C19 railings, with a Greek key, repeated oval, and quatrefoil pattern, below flat-roofed extension at right. Small gable at first floor, with 1 slightly recessed sash window, with glazing bars, with exposed boxes and architrave surrounds. Main gable of 2 storeys and attics set back. In 1820 the building was owned by Abraham Hudson, corn chandler, who probably undertook the Regency alterations; in the late C19 the premises were occupied by a tobacconist. (Edwards E and Perman D: Ware's Past In Pictures: Ware: 1991-: 85; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 43; Forrester H: Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 45).
Listing NGR: TL3589614285
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412335
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Edwards, , Perman, , Wares Past in Pictures, (1991)
Forrester, H, Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 45
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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