38 40, HIGH STREET
38 40, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274591
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 38 40, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 38 40, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274591
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 38 40, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 38 40, HIGH STREET
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:
- 38 40, 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 35886 14286
Details
WARE TOWN
TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/102 (North side) 14/03/74 Nos.38 AND 40
GV II
House, formerly 2 dwellings, now with shops on ground floor. C17, refronted C18 bricks with red dressings. Moulded red brick cornice, parapet with stone coping. Twin old tiled roofs, mansard on left, hipped on right, both with lead roll hips. 2 storeys. First floor with 4 C19 sash windows with divided glazing, flush set with exposed boxes and architrave surrounds. Ground floor to No.38 has C19 shopfront, much altered with pilaster at left surmounted by forward sloping recessed panel, with pediment motif above, to contain old fascia. Ground floor to No.40 has mid C20 shopfront, with brick stallriser, oak display windows, divided by mullions, blind box, and recessed fascia with cornice above. North elevation faces East Street, stuccoed, 2 storeys with twin gables facing street. No.38 first floor 1 modern casement, ground floor recessed door in architrave surround and 1 recessed mullion and transom casement window; No.40, first floor 1 flush-set sash window with glazing bars and architrave surround, ground floor mid C20 oak shop window with small panes, with entrance door to right. (Forrester H: Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 38, 40).
Listing NGR: TL3588614286
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412339
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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