RANKIN HOUSE

RANKIN HOUSE, 8, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274184
Date first listed:: 08-May-1950
List Entry Name:: RANKIN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: RANKIN HOUSE, 8, WEST STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274184
Date first listed:: 08-May-1950
List Entry Name:: RANKIN HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: RANKIN HOUSE, 8, WEST 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:: RANKIN HOUSE, 8, WEST 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 35750 14374

Details

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE WEST STREET 829-1/9/183 (North side) 08/05/50 No.8 Rankin House

II

House, subsequently `Town Hall', now offices. Early C18, altered early C19. Brick, stucco faced, Welsh slated roof behind parapet, with C20 box casement dormer, red brick chimneystacks. EXTERIOR: front elevation altered early C19, plinth, plat band at first floor level, cornice, 5 first floor sash windows with exposed boxes in shallow reveals, and small panes. Ground floor with 4 long sash windows in shallow reveals with exposed boxes, and small paned glazing. Central porch, 4 steps up from ground level, with Greek Ionic columns, Tuscan Doric responds, and entablature with fascia, frieze, cornice and blocking course. 4 fielded panelled door with rectangular fanlight, and pointed, arched glazing bars, in reveal below porch. Plain rear elevation, 3 storeys, stuccoed with plat bands at first and second floor levels, 5 flush set sash windows with glazing bars first and second floors, altered ground floor with linked mullion and transom casements, and central half-glazed door. INTERIOR: double-pile plan comprises 4 rooms around a narrow hall which traverses the house. Early C18 newel staircase with square newels with recessed panels with bolection moulding, moulded caps with cyma reversa, and sweeping moulded handrails. Column on vase balusters, and heavy moulded close string. Dado with moulded cap, and raised fielded panels with bold cornices, pilaster with honeysuckle caps, and heavily moulded fruit and flowers over arched niche in ground floor left hand front roofs. The entrance hall has bands of vitruvian scroll moulding, and arches supported on moulded consoles. The building functioned as a privately run `Town Hall' from 1867, administered by a syndicate of local businessmen, and a meeting room was built behind it, demolished in the 1950s. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N (rev. Cherry B): Hertfordshire: Harmondsworth: 1977-: 379; Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses. Selective Inventory: London: 1993-: 199; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; Moodey GE: East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter: Hertford: 1953-).

Listing NGR: TL3576614354

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 412415
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 379
Smith, J T, Hertfordshire Houses Selective Inventory, (1993), 199
'East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter' in East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter, (1953)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.