70 74 76, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274487
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: 70 74 76, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: 70 74 76, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274487
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: 70 74 76, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 70 74 76, HIGH 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:: 70 74 76, HIGH 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 35784 14328

Details

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/120 (North side) 14/03/74 Nos.70, 74 AND 76

GV II

Cornmarket with meeting and reading rooms, now commercial premises. Built 1827 by public subscription. Yellow brick stucco dressings. Hipped low pitched Welsh slated roof above wide eaves cornice. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. First floor band, with 7 south facing and 2 east facing tall sash windows with glazing bars in reveals under stucco faced lintels with moulded cornices. Slightly recessed single window wing on left. Rear elevation facing West Street has 6 first floor blank recesses beneath segmental arches on first floor, and 6 arcaded arches on ground floor. Ground floor arcaded, having 7 arches in archivolts with imposts and keyblocks, originally open, with C19 and C20 glazed infill. On left modern plate glass display window in moulded surround, possibly late C19. Plaque on east records `Town Hall', but this identified the reading room, and the building never fulfilled a municipal role. The ground floor arcades were first enclosed in the 1840s when the building became a shop, and the arcades on the east front were removed for insertion of a shopfront. The building was extensively refurbished in 1984-5. Prominent site, with east facade a focal point in views westward along High Street. (Edwards E and Perman D: Ware's Past In Pictures: Ware: 1991-: 11, 93, 95, 141; Heath C: The Book of Ware. A Portrait of the Town: Chesham: 1977-: 61; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 47; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-).

Listing NGR: TL3578314328

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

Legacy System number:: 412356
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Edwards, , Perman, , Wares Past in Pictures, (1991), 141
Edwards, , Perman, , Wares Past in Pictures, (1991), 11
Edwards, , Perman, , Wares Past in Pictures, (1991), 93
Edwards, , Perman, , Wares Past in Pictures, (1991), 95
Heath, C, The Book of Ware A Portrait of the Town, (1977), 61

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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.