Description

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET
829-1/9/103 (North side)
No.42

GV II

Commercial premises, with living accommodation above, now
offices. Mid C19. Stucco over brickwork, Welsh slated roof.
3 storeys. First floor has 2 sash windows with divided
glazing, with panelled surrounds, with paterae, and projecting
moulded cornices; second floor has 2 lower sash windows with
panelled surrounds. Panelled pilasters at left and right ends,
with Corinthian capitals. Cavetto moulded eaves cornice.
Ground floor has elaborate C19 shopfront, contained by stucco
pilasters at side, each surmounted by foliated capitals, and
coved console brackets, with upper part forming base for
pilasters at side of first and second floors. Modern brick
stallrisers, shopfront, and left hand side entrance door,
framed by reeded pilasters, with moulded cills, with cornices.
Fascia surmounted by dentil frieze and moulded cornice.
Recessed central modern entrance door, left hand door to
offices above. Rear elevation faces East Street. 3 storeys.
C20 brick infill on ground floor, stucco above, with 3 C20
sash windows on first and second floors.
(Forrester H: Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware:
Hitchin: 1964-: 45).

Listing NGR: TL3588114287

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512153

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (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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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair