29, HIGH STREET
29, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274650
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 29, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 29, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274650
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 29, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 29, 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:
- 29, 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 35857 14243
Details
WARE TOWN
TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/93 (South side) 14/03/74 No.29
GV II
House, now bank. c1833 with late C19 and mid C20 alterations. Red brick front, parapet with stone coping, Welsh slated roof. Slight setback to left, with carriageway under elliptical arch, with twin leaf gates. 3 storeys, plinth, broad painted plat bands at floor levels. 1:4 sash windows with glazing bars, in reveals under rubbed flat arches. 5 stone steps up to door, C19 wrought-iron railings. 6 fielded panelled door and fanlight with radiating glazing bars in arched panelled reveal, surround with Tuscan Doric pilasters, entablature with triglyph frieze and modillions. Modern, mid C20 multi-paned ground floor windows. Large mid C20 banking hall at rear, not of special interest. HISTORICAL NOTE: this building occupies the historic site of The George Inn, recorded in 1490, and for several centuries one of the principal inns of the town. Housed `The Great Bed of Ware' in early C18, and visited by Isaak Walton, mentioned in The Compleat Angler. Acquired by Robert Sworder, and c1833 demolished, and the present house built for John Sworder. (Heath C: The Book of Ware. A Portrait of the Town: Chesham: 1977-: 12, 14, 17; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; Hunt EM: The History of Ware: Hertford: 1986-1946: 111-116; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 27).
Listing NGR: TL3585714243
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412330
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hunt, E M, The History of Ware 1986-1946, (1986), 111-116
Heath, C, The Book of Ware A Portrait of the Town, (1977), 12
Heath, C, The Book of Ware A Portrait of the Town, (1977), 14
Heath, C, The Book of Ware A Portrait of the Town, (1977), 17
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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