The Cannon Tavern
THE CANNON TAVERN, 1, THE BOURNE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238270
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Cannon Tavern
- Statutory Address:
- THE CANNON TAVERN, 1, THE BOURNE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238270
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Cannon Tavern
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CANNON TAVERN, 1, THE BOURNE
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:
- THE CANNON TAVERN, 1, THE BOURNE
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 35652 14766
Details
WARE TOWN
TL3514NE THE BOURNE 829-1/7/168 (North side) 14/03/74 No.1 The Cannon Tavern
II
House, now public house. C16, altered C17 and subsequently. Timber-framed, colourwashed pebbledash finish, old tiled roof, hipped at west end, yellow brick chimneystack with oversailing courses and 3 pots. 3 bay cross passage plan, with service wing at right hand (east) end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. First floor has 2 widely spaced nearly flush set sash windows with exposed boxes, and glazing bars, beneath shallow projecting weatherboards. Ground floor has 4 recessed sash windows with glazing bars, central 2 paired, entrance doorway, against stack, has recessed C20 half-glazed door beneath cut bracketed flat doorhood. INTERIOR has inserted stack creating a lobby entry, within the narrower central bay, possibly earlier smoke bay in a hall. On the first floor cut braces to the tie-beam appear to indicate that the first floor was a later insertion. The service wing is in line with the hall, and has an original first floor, with exposed studwork and evidence for two wooden mullioned unglazed windows. The roof in this remains open to collar purlin level, and mortices for braces now missing, indicate an original crown post structure. C19 single storey outshoot along Milton Road frontage, yellow brick, plastered and roughcast with Welsh slated roof. Large late C20 rear extension, single storey brick with sandfaced tile roof. (Ware Tithe Map: 1845-; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; Branch Johnson W: Hertfordshire Inns: Letchworth: 1962-: 97-8).
Listing NGR: TL3565214766
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412400
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, Hertfordshire Inns A handbook of Old Hertfordshire Inns and Beer Houses, (1962), 97-8
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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