73 75, HIGH STREET

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WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/121 (South side) 14/03/74 Nos.73 AND 75

GV II

Former inn range, now commercial premises, with bank on ground floor to right of carriageway. C15, altered C17 and refronted C19, banking hall created by opening out ground floor 1972-73. Colourwashed stucco, Welsh slated roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Eaves cornice, 4 first floor flush set sash windows, with glazing bars, two 12 pane at left, two 16 pane at right. Ground floor has a late C19 shopfront at left of carriageway. Plastered stallriser, moulded cill, moulded glazing bars, and arcaded heads, converted to a single display window by the removal of the central bar. Glazed entrance door at left. Fascia carried on projecting corbel bracket at left, and covers bressumer of jetty. Moulded base below fascia, and projecting moulded cornice above. Carriageway left of centre. Mid 1970s front to banking hall at right. Early C19 2-storey brick outshoots with slated roofs, red brick coach house and stables, c1890, behind. INTERIOR: internal reconstruction of No.75, 1972-73, revealed elaborate roll-moulded beams in-situ in ground floor ceiling (now covered by modern suspended ceiling). A C15 moulded bracket carrying the first floor jetty supported on a half-octagonal post with moulded cap, was revealed in the right hand party wall, and is displayed in a glazed case in the banking hall, together with a panel of C17 pargeting decorated with a rope twist or guilloche. The front wall was found to contain close studding with brick nogging infilling, and the moulded jambs and central mullions of a 2-light upper window, originally with arched heads, was discovered. These features have now been covered over, but were recorded by the East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society. HISTORICAL NOTE: the building was the site of The White Hart Inn, first recorded in 1476, which housed the Great Bed in 1610. The land on which it stood was the property of The Guild of Corpus Christi, and subsequently the Ware Charity Trustees, who remain the ground landlords. Its use as an inn ceased early C19, following which it was rebuilt, and the roof was slated. The ground floor was used for shops, No.75 until the Midland Bank obtained the lease of the building in 1972. (Hunt EM: The History of Ware: Hertford: 1986-1946: 110-11, 130, 164; Perman D: 600 Yrs. of Charity.A Brief History of the Ware Charity Trustees: Ware: 1991-: 5,8-9,11,13,14,21,27; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 34; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; The Victoria History of the County of Hertford: London: 1912-: 396; Moodey GE: East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter: 32, 33: Hertford: 1972-1973).

Listing NGR: TL3571514314

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Sources

Books and journals
Perman, D, 600 Years of Charity: A Brief History of the Ware Charity Trustees, (1991), 21
Perman, D, 600 Years of Charity: A Brief History of the Ware Charity Trustees, (1991), 27
Perman, D, 600 Years of Charity: A Brief History of the Ware Charity Trustees, (1991), 11
Perman, D, 600 Years of Charity: A Brief History of the Ware Charity Trustees, (1991), 13-14
Perman, D, 600 Years of Charity: A Brief History of the Ware Charity Trustees, (1991), 8-9
Perman, D, 600 Years of Charity: A Brief History of the Ware Charity Trustees, (1991), 5
Hunt, E M, The History of Ware 1986-1946, (1986), 110-11
Hunt, E M, The History of Ware 1986-1946, (1986), 130
Hunt, E M, The History of Ware 1986-1946, (1986), 164
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 396
Transactions of The East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society in Transactions of The East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society, Vol. 32, (1972)
Transactions of The East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society in Transactions of The East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society, Vol. 33, (1973)

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