50, CRIB STREET
50, CRIB STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274803
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 50, CRIB STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 50, CRIB STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274803
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 50, CRIB STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 50, CRIB 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:
- 50, CRIB 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 35760 14594
Details
WARE TOWN
TL3514NE CRIB STREET 829-1/7/67 (East side) 14/03/74 No.50
GV II
Late C15, with mid C20 south extension. Timber-framed, colourwashed pebbledash over painted flush brick plinth, with gable of old tiled roof facing street. Red brick chimneystack shared with No.52 (qv) with oversailing course and 4 pots. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, first floor jettied, over 3 curved wooden brackets. One 3-light wooden casement, with leaded glazing. Ground floor has one 3 and one 2-light casement with leaded glazing. Pantile-roofed plastered and brick single storey mid C20 lean-to at right, with recessed entrance door beneath first floor overhang. INTERIOR has 2 bay timber-framed structure, possibly a cross-wing to hall to the north. Ground floor has a moulded Tudor-arched door head to south wall of front room. Heavy exposed studwork, and shutter grooves visible over ground floor windows. First floor has 2 rooms, with a studded partition between; C18 plank doors, mortices for wooden mullions for windows in side wall, one in situ, and shutter grooves over first floor front window. Unmoulded crown post roof, with fore and aft bracing to collar purlin, exposed in rear chamber. Fireplaces built late C16 outside original structure: wooden lintel on ground floor; stucco-covered moulded elliptical brick arch over first floor fireplace. (Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England): An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire: London: 1910-: 230; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 22; Forrester H: Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 41; Moodey GE: East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter: Hertford: 1953-).
Listing NGR: TL3576014594
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412303
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Forrester, H, Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 41
East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter in East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter, (1953)
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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