68, HIGH STREET, 1 AND 1A, WEST STREET
1 AND 1A, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237785
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 68, HIGH STREET, 1 AND 1A, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 1A, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237785
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 68, HIGH STREET, 1 AND 1A, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 1A, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 68, 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:
- 1 AND 1A, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 68, 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 35795 14342
Details
WARE TOWN
TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/118 (North side) 14/03/74 No.68
II
Includes: Nos.1 AND 1A WEST STREET. Houses, now with ground floor shops, first floor and attic, flat (No.1 West Street) and offices (No.68). One building, with central alleyway on ground floor. Late C16, with C18 and later alterations. Timber-framed, plastered, with jettied first floor partly underbuilt by C19 shopfronts on ground floor. Eaves cornice to old tiles gambrel roof, with 2 casement box dormers. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. First floor with 2 triple-light flush set sash windows with small panes, and exposed boxes with moulded architraves. Ground floor left shopfront (No.1 West Street) has projecting early C19 square bay, with arcaded windows, projecting fascia and cornice, recessed half-glazed door, with glazing bars, and 2 lower flush panels at right. Bressumer and jetty concealed by moulded coved cornice. Central alley door, C18, 2 recessed panels in moulded architrave surround. Right hand shopfront (No.68) early C19, has shallow projecting bay with plate glass window (originally with glazing bars), beneath bressumer, and three quarter glazed door, with lower raised fielded panel and bolection surround. INTERIOR: the first floor front room of No.1 West Street has ornamental serpentine bracing either side of window, and an ornamental plaster frieze. It has been suggested that the bracing was originally exposed externally, and repeated in the attic floor, and that the front of the building was originally gabled (Ware Society Newsletter, January 1982). Long rear outshoots, plastered over timber frame with old tiled roofs. Crown post roof over outshoot of No.68. (Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 47, 61; Ware Society Newsletter: Perman D: Conservation Notes - 1 West Street: Ware: 1982-: 8).
Listing NGR: TL3579514342
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412354
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ware Society Newsletter in Ware Society Newsletter, (1982), 8
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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