Description

WARE TOWN

TL3514NE BALDOCK STREET
829-1/7/33 (East side)
14/03/74 No.28

GV II

House, now offices. Late C15/early C16, altered C17 restored
internally 1981. Timber-framed, stucco faced, overhanging
eaves with old tiled roof, brick chimneystacks at left hand
side on ridge, and behind at right.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Twin canted bay windows, ground and first
floor, with wood casements renewed 1981, and small high level
window at left below eaves. Modern half-glazed central
entrance door under C18 cut bracketed flat hood. Parapeted
north gable is remnant of party wall to adjoining properties
demolished 1960s. 2 storey plastered rear outshoot with old
tile roof.
INTERIOR: the 1981 restoration revealed a remarkably complete
2-bay timber frame, with close, heavy studding built off a
sole plate, originally laid on earth, but later underbuilt in
brick, girding beams and heavy floor joists, and wall plates.
There are braced tie-beam trusses supporting a 2-bay
crown-post roof, with fore and aft bracing to the collar
purlin. The lower sections of the rafters, and collars are now
exposed internally. The wall plates and girding plates contain
evidence for 6 wooden diamond mullion unglazed windows, with
associated shutter grooves. One window survives complete in
the rear south bay of the upper storey. Evidence in south bay
for ladder stair, modern staircase in rear outshoot. Chimney
and fireplaces added to north in C17.
(Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey
Department: 1851-; Forrester H: Timber Framed Buildings in
Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 42; Ware Society
Newsletter: Perman D: Conservation Notes - 28 Baldock Street:
Ware: 1982-: 8-9).

Listing NGR: TL3560414576

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26515908

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