54 54B, HIGH STREET
54 54B, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237635
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 54 54B, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 54 54B, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237635
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 54 54B, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 54 54B, HIGH STREET
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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:
- 54 54B, 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 35846 14305
Details
WARE TOWN
TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/108 (North side) 14/03/74 Nos.54 AND 54B
GV II
House, possibly part of The French Horn Inn in C17, now commercial premises. C16 and C17, altered and refurbished 1980. Timber-framed, stucco-faced, old tiled roof, with one box dormer, and gable on right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. First floor has 3 flush-set sash windows with divided glazing and exposed boxes: attic gable at right has one flush-set sash window with glazing bars. Ground floor has modern shopfronts. No.54, at right, 1980s arcaded timber shopfront, with recessed entrance door at centre left. No.54b has mid C20 timber-framed shopfront with plate glass display windows and timber fascia. It infills a carriageway which served the east side of the French Horn complex (qv). Ground floor gutted internally, and structure covered over. First floor, opened up as office space in 1980s, has exposed timber-framing with close-set heavy studwork of C16/C17 origin with curved windbracing. Inserted C17 chimneystack. On first floor south elevation there is at left hand a 3-light window with moulded wooden mullions, now plaster filled, and not visible externally. Higher level of first floor of No.54b, now part of open-plan first floor indicates location of former carriageway on ground floor. (Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses. Selective Inventory: London: 1993-: 198; Ware Tithe Map: 1845-; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; Forrester H: Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 41).
Listing NGR: TL3584614305
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412345
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Forrester, H, Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 41
Smith, J T, Hertfordshire Houses Selective Inventory, (1993)
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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