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54 54B, High Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Ware, Hertfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8109 / 51°48'39"N

Longitude: -0.0308 / 0°1'51"W

OS Eastings: 535846

OS Northings: 214305

OS Grid: TL358143

Mapcode National: GBR KBL.K06

Mapcode Global: VHGPH.FR14

Plus Code: 9C3XRX69+9M

Entry Name: 54 54B, High Street

Listing Date: 14 March 1974

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1237635

English Heritage Legacy ID: 412345

ID on this website: 101237635

Location: Ware, East Hertfordshire, SG12

County: Hertfordshire

District: East Hertfordshire

Civil Parish: Ware

Built-Up Area: Ware

Traditional County: Hertfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire

Church of England Parish: Ware

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

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Description



WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET
829-1/9/108 (North side)
14/03/74 Nos.54 AND 54B

GV II

House, possibly part of The French Horn Inn in C17, now
commercial premises. C16 and C17, altered and refurbished
1980. Timber-framed, stucco-faced, old tiled roof, with one
box dormer, and gable on right.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. First floor has 3 flush-set
sash windows with divided glazing and exposed boxes: attic
gable at right has one flush-set sash window with glazing
bars. Ground floor has modern shopfronts. No.54, at right,
1980s arcaded timber shopfront, with recessed entrance door at
centre left. No.54b has mid C20 timber-framed shopfront with
plate glass display windows and timber fascia. It infills a
carriageway which served the east side of the French Horn
complex (qv). Ground floor gutted internally, and structure
covered over. First floor, opened up as office space in 1980s,
has exposed timber-framing with close-set heavy studwork of
C16/C17 origin with curved windbracing. Inserted C17
chimneystack. On first floor south elevation there is at left
hand a 3-light window with moulded wooden mullions, now
plaster filled, and not visible externally. Higher level of
first floor of No.54b, now part of open-plan first floor
indicates location of former carriageway on ground floor.
(Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses. Selective Inventory: London:
1993-: 198; Ware Tithe Map: 1845-; Ware 25" to 1 Mile.
Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; Forrester
H: Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin:
1964-: 41).


Listing NGR: TL3584614305

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