Description

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET
829-1/9/125 (South side)
14/03/74 No.81

GV II

House, now shops with flat above. 1833, dated on rainwater
head. Built for Ware Gas Light and Coke Company, ground floor
rebuilt 1954. Yellow stock brick, Welsh slated roof, with 2
brick chimneys with square terracotta pots. 2 storeys. 3 first
floor sash windows with glazing bars in reveals under flat
arches. Ground floor has Neo-Georgian shopfront with
entablatures, central pediment above Doric pilasters enclosing
recessed entrance, with twin leaded glazed doors under
semicircular fanlight with radiating glazing bars and moulded
archivolt. Site of The Checker Inn, first recorded 1509. The
C19 rebuilding incorporates some reused timber, as indicated
by a moulded beam, used as a purlin in the roof of the rear
outshoot.
(Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or
historic interest: 1993-: 35).

Listing NGR: TL3568414328

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512159

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014