Description

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE BALDOCK STREET
829-1/9/28 (West side)
08/05/50 No.23

GV II

House, later inn, house, and now offices. C16 and C17 refaced
C18. Timber-framed, with masonry lined stucco facing. Old
tiled roof with moulded eaves cornice.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 sash windows with glazing bars,
slightly set back with concealed boxes, on first floor; 3 sash
windows with glazing bars, nearly flush-set, with exposed
boxes and moulded architraves on ground floor. Entrance door
to right between right hand pair of windows. 6 fielded
panelled door, with glazed upper panels, in architrave
surround with flat hood on cut brackets. At left is
carriageway, with moulded surround and elliptical arch, with
carved spandrels with foliage. Twin plank doors, with wicket
door in right hand leaf. At rear is long outshoot,
timber-framed, with plastered walls, and old tiled roof, 2
storeys with attics. Gabled jetty beneath attic, supported on
cut consoles facing south.
INTERIOR: moulded beams are found in the central ground floor
room, and one C18 moulded coving to the left hand room. The
inconsistent disposition of the mouldings indicates that the
floor plan has been altered. The stair at the rear of the
frontage block was not directly accessible from the yard as
with most inns. The kitchen appears to have been in the west
wing. Recorded as a house in 1622, and as The Black Swan Inn
in 1654.
(Edwards E and Perman D: Ware's Past In Pictures: Ware: 1991-:
119; Hunt EM: The History of Ware: Hertford: 1986-1946: 67,
97; Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England): An
Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire:
London: 1910-: 230; Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses. Selective
Inventory: London: 1993-: 194; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed
by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; The Victoria History
of the County of Hertford : III: London: 1912-: 381; Forrester
H: Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin:
1964-: 39).

Listing NGR: TL3556714470

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512128

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