1 1A 1B 1C, PRIORY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274335
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: 1 1A 1B 1C, PRIORY STREET
Statutory Address:: 1 1A 1B 1C, PRIORY STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274335
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Sep-1995
List Entry Name:: 1 1A 1B 1C, PRIORY STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 1 1A 1B 1C, PRIORY 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 1A 1B 1C, PRIORY 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 35595 14403

Details

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE PRIORY STREET 829-1/9/156 (West side) 14/03/74 Nos.1, 1A, 1B AND 1C (Formerly Listed as: PRIORY STREET Nos.1 AND 1A)

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House, now with offices on ground floor, and flats over. C16 and C17, altered and extended C19. Timber-framed, colourwashed brick front, Welsh slated roof behind parapet, corbelled cornice, detail of brickwork matching adjacent No.1 Baldock Street (qv), but with higher level roof. 2 storeys and attics above basement. 2 sash windows with glazing bars in reveals under flat arches, central first floor dummy window. 5 panel door with 2 glazed upper panels, and fanlight in round headed reveal, 3 steps above street level. Carriageway on right with timber studwork of No.1 Baldock Street exposed, and exposed beams above. Rear wing of 2 storeys, plastered and colourwashed, with some C17 fan pargeting, and exposed timbers, and internally, mortices indicating the position of former mullioned windows. The courtyard plan with the north-east range fronting Baldock Street (qv), suggests an historic inn site, and it is thought that The Griffin Inn occupied this land during the mid C17. (Hunt EM: The History of Ware: Hertford: 1986-1946: 100; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-).

Listing NGR: TL3559514403

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Legacy System number:: 412390
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hunt, E M, The History of Ware 1986-1946, (1986), 100

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