Description

WARE TOWN

TL3514NE BALDOCK STREET
829-1/7/24 (East side)
14/03/74 Nos.14, 14A AND 16
(Formerly Listed as:
BALDOCK STREET
(East side)
No.14)
(Formerly Listed as:
BALDOCK STREET
(East side)
No.16)

GV II

House, possibly historic inn, now offices. C16 and C17,
altered and extended C18, C19 and C20. Timber-framed, with
colourwashed brick front above stucco plinth. Old tiled roof,
with part of wood modillion cornice remaining at left above
No.14.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. First floor has 5 flush set mullion and
transom pattern windows. Ground floor has modern shopfront at
left (No.16). Door (to No.14), C18, has 2 large recessed flush
panels, with raised moulded surround, and is set in panelled
reveal with architrave surround and open pediment hood on
consoles above blank fanlight. 3 C20 plate glass ground floor
windows under segmental relieving arches with moulded
keystones. Plat band at first floor level. Rear has complex
outshoots around irregular courtyard. No.14 has rear wing,
timber-framed and plastered, with modern casement windows and
old tiled roof, along southern boundary, and returning as
barn/stabling along east boundary. Altered and converted to
office use 1970s. No.16 has 3 storey large C19 rendered brick
outshoot, with concrete tile and Welsh slated roofs. At
extreme rear is curved single storey projection in yellow-grey
Hitch Patent brickwork, c1840, probably a former privy or
urinal.
INTERIOR: No.14 has exposed late C16 moulded binding beams and
bearers visible in the ceiling of the large front right hand
room, which also has a brick fireplace with a chamfered Tudor
arch. In the south rear outshoot there is a close string
dog-leg plan newel staircase of mid C18 date, with column on
vase turned balusters and moulded handrail, giving access from
ground to first floor. The first floor east room adjoining the
landing has an C18 fireplace surround with bolection moulding.
The C18 outshoot corresponds in date with the widening of the
street range to form corridors. RCHM (and Hertfordshire
Houses, p.172) suggests the origin of this complex as an inn,
together with No.18 (qv). It appears that the property was
divided into separate ownerships mid C19, when No.18 rebuilt.
(Smith JT: English Houses 1200-1800. The Hertfordshire
Evidence: London: 1992-: 172; Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses.
Selective Inventory: London: 1993-: 194; Ware 25" to 1 Mile.
Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; Forrester
H: Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin:
1964-: 43).

Listing NGR: TL3560214512

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512126

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