Description

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE BALDOCK STREET
829-1/9/19 (East side)
14/03/74 No.6

GV II

House, now offices. C17 with C19 front, and C19 rear wing.
Timber-framed with stucco front over brick, steeply pitched
old tiled roof, above cornice and parapet, over front range, 3
former box dormers removed in 1980s. Lower pitch Welsh slated
roof with hipped end over rear range.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, with cellars and attics. 5 first floor
sash windows with glazing bars, set in reveals, and one blank
recess, third from right. Rusticated ground floor above cement
plinth, with cellar vent at left. 4 ground floor sash windows,
with glazing bars, set in reveals, recessed central 6
fielded-panel door, with rectangular fanlight. Carriageway on
right with twin ledged, braced and battened door, with wicket
in right hand leaf. C19 entry from carriageway with half
glazed door with ornamental leaded lights, leaded 6 pane
fanlight and leaded 10 pane sidelight. Rear has projecting bay
with French casements on first floor and one tall 12 pane sash
window on first floor, with Regency cast-iron balcony front.
INTERIOR: includes panelled rooms on first floor.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this property, with Nos 2 and 4 Baldock
Street (qv) passed to the ownership of Trinity College,
Cambridge at the Reformation as part of Henry VIII's founding
endowment, and the land, extending originally to include The
Manor House, Church Street (qv) had formed part of the
property of the Carthusian Priory at Sheen before that.
(Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or
historic interest: 1993-: 8; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by
the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-).

Listing NGR: TL3567114551

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512123

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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