68, HIGH STREET, 1 AND 1A, WEST STREET

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 AND 1A, WEST STREET

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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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.