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

• Wikidata Q26512159

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey