Former Station Hotel
Former Station Hotel, Station Road, SG12 9UT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238264
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Former Station Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- Former Station Hotel, Station Road, SG12 9UT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238264
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Former Station Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Station Hotel, Station Road, SG12 9UT
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:
- Former Station Hotel, Station Road, SG12 9UT
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:
- TL3601314011
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19 February 2024 to amend the name and address
TL3614SW
829-1/10/165
WARE TOWN
STATION ROAD (North side)
Former Station Hotel
(Formerly listed as No.7 The Station Hotel)
GV
II
Built as a railway hotel by Eastern Counties Railway 1843, extended c1850, later additions and C20 alterations. Yellow-brown stock brick, with stucco plat band at first floor window cill level and stucco eaves cornice. Hipped Welsh slate roof, yellow brick chimneys throughout with oversailing courses.
EXTERIOR: two storeys, with basement cellars, partly exposed at rear by falling ground level. Original block L-plan, with convex curved infill between the arms and a curved ground floor loggia with Tuscan Doric antae. Central door, flanked by semicircular headed windows, originally the main entrance. Single sash window above, recessed in brick reveals under rubbed flat arch.
East elevation, two sash windows ground floor and first floor. South elevation has first floor two recessed sash windows, ground floor early C20 flat roofed projection, brick with stuccoed pantiled plinth, red brick pilasters with recessed stucco panels, deep stucco fascia, and red brick dentil course with moulded cornice. Three semicircular headed windows with stucco pilaster surrounds, Tuscan capitals and keystones. Recessed entrance at left, splayed return, with one semicircular headed window at right. Sash window with leaded light glazing. Two storey extension on west, 1850, distanced approximately 1.5m from original building on first floor, appears to have included a basement kitchen. Yellow-brown stock brick, stucco eaves cornice matching original building and Welsh slate roof, first floor with two recessed sash windows, and central blind recessed panel, all under rubbed flat arches, 1950s flat-roofed projection on ground floor. Further two storey extension at rear, with ground floor a half level above main building. Internally altered on ground floor. Further two storey extension at rear, with ground floor a half level above main building.
INTERIOR: altered early C20, when projection for lounge bar built, which retains its early C20 fittings, and again in 1950s, when the ground floor was opened out from the original
entrance to form a larger public bar.
A repeat of the Station Hotel exists at the Great Eastern Tavern, Railway Street, Hertford.
Listing NGR: TL3601314011
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412398
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Edwards, , Perman, , Wares Past in Pictures, (1991), 134
Branch Johnson, W, Hertfordshire Inns A handbook of Old Hertfordshire Inns and Beer Houses, (1962), 100
Other
Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851
Ware Tithe Map: 1845
Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 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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