Number 31 and Attached Outbuildings to Rear
NUMBER 31 AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS TO REAR, 31, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275426
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Number 31 and Attached Outbuildings to Rear
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 31 AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS TO REAR, 31, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275426
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Number 31 and Attached Outbuildings to Rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 31 AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS TO REAR, 31, HIGH STREET
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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:
- NUMBER 31 AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS TO REAR, 31, 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 35864 14267
Details
WARE TOWN
TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/95 (South side) 14/03/74 No.31 and attached outbuildings to rear (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET No.31)
GV II
House and inn, now commercial premises, with offices above. C16, C17 rebuilding with C19 alterations. Timber-framed, stuccoed with masonry lining, first floor jettied with cavetto moulding over projecting beam ends, old tiled roof above moulded eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 3 first floor sash windows with glazing bars, flush-set with moulded architrave surrounds. Ground floor has early C19 24 paned oriel bay shop window with slender glazing bars, fascia and plain cornice, flanked by half glazed door, 3 steps up from street level, with wrought-iron railing. Carriageway on right paved with cobbles and twin tracks of granite setts. Exposed beams in ceiling. Long rear outshoot in 2 sections, 2 storeys timber-framed, plastered with projecting first floor canted oriel window carried on braces, lower section timber-framed, plastered with casement windows. Barn behind with colourwashed brick ground floor, and weatherboarded first floor, old tiled roof. Weatherboarded stables further to rear. INTERIOR: contains early C18 moulded wood cornice in ground floor front room, plain newel stair behind front range, originally leading from ground floor, with direct access from rear yard. Roof much altered, and notched rafters indicate that an earlier crown-post structure was substantially rebuilt early C17. Adjoins the historic site of The George Inn, No.29 High Street (qv), and may have been used as extra accommodation for hostelry. (Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-).
Listing NGR: TL3586414267
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412332
- 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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