Description

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET
829-1/9/118 (North side)
14/03/74 No.68

II

Includes: Nos.1 AND 1A WEST STREET.
Houses, now with ground floor shops, first floor and attic,
flat (No.1 West Street) and offices (No.68). One building,
with central alleyway on ground floor. Late C16, with C18 and
later alterations. Timber-framed, plastered, with jettied
first floor partly underbuilt by C19 shopfronts on ground
floor. Eaves cornice to old tiles gambrel roof, with 2
casement box dormers.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. First floor with 2
triple-light flush set sash windows with small panes, and
exposed boxes with moulded architraves. Ground floor left
shopfront (No.1 West Street) has projecting early C19 square
bay, with arcaded windows, projecting fascia and cornice,
recessed half-glazed door, with glazing bars, and 2 lower
flush panels at right. Bressumer and jetty concealed by
moulded coved cornice. Central alley door, C18, 2 recessed
panels in moulded architrave surround. Right hand shopfront
(No.68) early C19, has shallow projecting bay with plate glass
window (originally with glazing bars), beneath bressumer, and
three quarter glazed door, with lower raised fielded panel and
bolection surround.
INTERIOR: the first floor front room of No.1 West Street has
ornamental serpentine bracing either side of window, and an
ornamental plaster frieze. It has been suggested that the
bracing was originally exposed externally, and repeated in the
attic floor, and that the front of the building was originally
gabled (Ware Society Newsletter, January 1982). Long rear
outshoots, plastered over timber frame with old tiled roofs.
Crown post roof over outshoot of No.68.
(Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or
historic interest: 1993-: 47, 61; Ware Society Newsletter:
Perman D: Conservation Notes - 1 West Street: Ware: 1982-: 8).

Listing NGR: TL3579514342

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26530892

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)