49 51, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1222563
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: 49 51, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: 49 51, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1222563
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Sep-1995
List Entry Name:: 49 51, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 49 51, HIGH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 49 51, 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 35799 14288

Details

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/106 (South side) 14/03/74 Nos.49 AND 51 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET No.49) (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET No.51)

GV II

Former inn, subsequently 2 houses, now in commercial use with flats over. C16, rebuilt C17, with C19 and C20 alterations. Timber-framed, stucco facing, old tiled roof with broad cornice, 2 box casement dormers with C20 windows. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. Jettied first floor with canted oriel bay at left with C19 sash windows (No.49), 2 flush sash windows (No.51). Ground floor of No.49 at left has modern shopfront beneath jetty, flanked by C19 fluted pilasters, surmounted by paired profiled console brackets. 1980s shopfront to No.51 at right, with tiled stallriser and pilasters, framing bold modern timber-framed windows, with recessed entrance with glazed door at right. Central carriageway with exposed timber beams above, twin leaf timber doors, with wicket. 2 storey rear outshoots, timber-framed, plastered with old tiled roofs, altered 1980s. No.49 has 5 flush set sash windows on first floor, 1 on ground floor, and blocked C18 doorway with architrave surround and flat moulded head on cut profiled console brackets. No.51 has a similar doorway and 2 C19 4-light cast-iron casement windows on ground floor. INTERIOR of No.49 has close string newel stair with turned balusters. Ground floor of No.51 now opened out, with C18 fire surrounds remaining on first floor and in attic. Sash windows of early C18 pattern with quadrant bars and crown glass. Tie beams and heavy rafters exposed within rear outshoot refurbished 1980s. No.51 was originally The Falcon Inn but had become The Bear Inn by end C15. It subsequently became a house, and a maltings was built behind it, which later became the Falcon Ironworks and Foundry (now rebuilt as a printing works, not included). The small-paned cast-iron casement windows here and elsewhere in the town were manufactured on this site. (Edwards E and Perman D: Ware's Past In Pictures: Ware: 1991-: 62; Hunt EM: The History of Ware: Hertford: 1986-1946: 97; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 30; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-).

Listing NGR: TL3579914288

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 412343
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Edwards, , Perman, , Wares Past in Pictures, (1991), 62
Hunt, E M, The History of Ware 1986-1946, (1986), 97

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.