Description

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE BALDOCK STREET
829-1/9/18 (West side)
14/03/74 No.5

GV II

House, now offices. C17 and C18 with C19 and later
alterations. Timber-framed and plastered, with old tiled
double roof parallel to street. Shares cruciform shafted
chimneystack at left with No.3 (qv). 2 storeys, first floor
flush set sash window with glazing bars. Ground floor has C19
shopfront surround with narrow pilasters with moulded caps,
fascia with cut profiled ends and cornice, with inserted mid
C20 half glazed entrance door, and display window divided by
glazing bars into 15 panes.
INTERIOR: has first floor front room with simple C18
panelling, comparable with that in No.3. Together with No.1
Priory Street (qv), and Nos 1 and 2 Baldock Street (qv)
possibly formed the site of The Griffin Inn in mid C17.
(Hunt EM: The History of Ware: Hertford: 1986-1946: 100;
Forrester H: Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware:
Hitchin: 1964-: 49).

Listing NGR: TL3558814418

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26515758

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (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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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings