Description

WARE TOWN

TL3514NE BALDOCK STREET
829-1/7/25 (East side)
No.18

GV II

House. c1840, rebuilt on previously developed site.
Yellow-grey brick, laid to Flemish bond, now colourwashed,
with red painted quoins and rubbed arches over windows. 3
course brick plat band at second floor level of moulded
stretchers alternating with flush headers, between 2 plain
courses. Brick cornice above second floor windows with
projecting dentils alternating with moulded bricks, parapet
with stone coping, Welsh slate roof. Chimneystacks left and
right with projecting moulded brick offsets and oversailing
courses and tapered square pots.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, joined to No.16 (qv) at right above
carriageway. First floor and second floor 2 triple-light sash
windows, with plate glass in main buildings, 1 single-light
sash, with plate glass, above carriageway. All windows
recessed, with brick reveals. Ground floor has rusticated
stucco piers and plat band at first floor level above 1970s
shopfront. Half-brick break in facade at right with
carriageway and 2 storeys above recessed. North flank wall
includes bands of Hitch Patent brickwork. 2 storey brick rear
outshoot, part rendered, with some Hitch brickwork. RCHM (and
English Houses p.172) suggest No.18 as an historic inn site,
with Nos 14 and 16 (qv).
(Smith JT: English Houses 1200-1800. The Hertfordshire
Evidence: London: 1992-: 172; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by
the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; Moodey GE: East
Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter: Hertford:
1976-).

Listing NGR: TL3560214529

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26565035

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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