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:: 38 40, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 412339
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.