BREWERY TAP

BREWERY TAP, 83, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1275432
Date first listed:: 08-May-1950
List Entry Name:: BREWERY TAP
Statutory Address:: BREWERY TAP, 83, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1275432
Date first listed:: 08-May-1950
List Entry Name:: BREWERY TAP
Statutory Address 1:: BREWERY TAP, 83, 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:: BREWERY TAP, 83, 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 35667 14330

Details

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/127 (South side) 08/05/50 No.83 Brewery Tap

GV II

Former inn range, subsequently with brewery at rear, now public house with flat over. C15, later heightened, and refronted late C18, early C19 shopfront and later alterations. C18 front of red and grey brick with red brick dressings, encasing earlier timber-framed structure. Welsh slated steeply pitched roof with bracketed cornice, plastered side gable with flush set attic windows. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attics. First and second floors have 4 irregularly spaced sash windows with glazing bars, almost flush set with exposed boxes, under rubbed flat arches. Plat bands at first and second floor level. Ground floor left, east of carriageway has one sash window; to right (west) fine late C18 or early C19 shopfront with twin bow windows, with glazing bars, reeded pilasters with paterae, central door, with 4 recessed panels, and rectangular fanlight above, under fret architrave, fascia, moulded cornice, and is surmounted by wrought-iron balcony railing. Carriageway has timber posts with Tuscan Doric caps and bressumer with recessed panel. Framed and panelled gates, with wicket door in right hand leaf. C15 timber-framed arched door in left hand of carriageway. Building plastered at rear with old tiled roofs. Long rear 2 storey outshoot, weatherboarded on east, red brick on west, C18 and C19, functioned as brewery. Altered and extended mid 1970s architects Adams Huntley. Extensive part-vaulted C18 and C19 cellars. Exposed beams ground floor and first floors indicate timber-framed origins and subsequent alterations but original layout and structure much altered. Site of The Horseshoe Inn, recorded 1509, later known as The Golden Cross Inn, giving the name Starcross Row to this part of High Street, in conjunction with the nearby Star Inn. (Edwards E and Perman D: Ware's Past In Pictures: Ware: 1991-: 97; Hunt EM: The History of Ware: Hertford: 1986-1946: 99; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 36; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; Forrester H: Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 38, 46-7; Branch Johnson W: Hertfordshire Inns: Letchworth: 1962-: 97; Moodey GE: East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter: Hertford: 1962-).

Listing NGR: TL3566714330

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 412363
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W , Hertfordshire Inns A handbook of Old Hertfordshire Inns and Beer Houses, (1962), 97
Edwards, , Perman, , Wares Past in Pictures, (1991), 97
Forrester, H , Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 38
Hunt, E M, The History of Ware 1986-1946, (1986), 99
'Transactions of The East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society' in Transactions of The East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society, (1962)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.