77 77A 77B, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237828
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: 77 77A 77B, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: 77 77A 77B, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237828
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Sep-1995
List Entry Name:: 77 77A 77B, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 77 77A 77B, 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:: 77 77A 77B, 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 35703 14331

Details

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/122 (South side) 14/03/74 Nos.77, 77A AND 77B (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET No.77) (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET Nos.77A AND 77B)

GV II

Former inn range, now commercial premises. C15, with C17, C18 and C19 alterations. Stucco on timber framework, old tiled roof with 2 gables facing street. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 3 first floor flush set sash windows with glazing bars, 2 in left, one in right gable. Mid C20 shopfront on ground floor, with large timber-framed plate glass display window, recessed entrance at right, and weatherboarded flanking panels, and deep fascia. Carriageway at right with exposed beams above. Rear outshoot 2 storeys, C16 and C17, timber-framed, plastered, with old tiled roofs. Sash and casement windows, modern glazed entrance door and sidelight on ground floor, modern 3-light small paned casement in gable, C19 altered single storey south wing. INTERIOR: opened out on ground floor, with exposed studwork indicating two 2-bay structures side by side. First floor has exposed braced tie-beam truss over carriageway, and 2 bay crown post roof above wing. Left hand range also has crown post roof above ceiling. Chimney at rear in narrow smoke bay, with C18 moulded fireplace surround on first floor. Rear outshoot also has 2 bay crown post roof, and wooden mullioned, unglazed window, now plastered over internally, on first floor below eaves alongside central tie-beam truss, indicating existence of upper open hall in rear range. Site of The Bell Inn, first recorded in 1479, later incorporated with the adjoining Star Inn, No 79 (qv). (Hunt EM: The History of Ware: Hertford: 1986-1946: 97; Perman D: 600 Yrs of Charity. A Brief History of the Ware Charity Trustees: Ware: 1991-: 8; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 34; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-).

Listing NGR: TL3569914323

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 412358
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hunt, E M, The History of Ware 1986-1946, (1986), 97
Perman, D , 600 Years of Charity: A Brief History of the Ware Charity Trustees, (1991), 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.