NUMBERS 1, 1A, 1B AND 1C BALDOCK STREET
1, 1A, 1B AND 1C, PRIORY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274335
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- NUMBERS 1, 1A, 1B AND 1C BALDOCK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1, 1A, 1B AND 1C, PRIORY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274335
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- NUMBERS 1, 1A, 1B AND 1C BALDOCK STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, 1A, 1B AND 1C, PRIORY STREET
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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:
- 1, 1A, 1B AND 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:
- TL3560014401
Details
TL3514SE
829-1/9/156
14/03/74
WARE TOWN
PRIORY STREET
(West side)
Nos.1, 1A, 1B AND 1C
(Formerly Listed as:
PRIORY STREET
Nos.1 AND 1A)
GV
II
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: TL3560014401
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412390
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hunt, E M, The History of Ware 1986-1946, (1986), 100
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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