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TL3614SW
829-1/10/165

WARE TOWN
STATION ROAD (North side)
No.7 The Station Hotel

GV
II

Built as a railway hotel by Eastern Counties Railway 1843, extended c1850, later additions and C20 alterations. Yellow-brown stock brick, with stucco plat band at first floor window cill level and stucco eaves cornice. Hipped Welsh slate roof, yellow brick chimneys throughout with oversailing courses.

EXTERIOR: two storeys, with basement cellars, partly exposed at rear by falling ground level. Original block L-plan, with convex curved infill between the arms and a curved ground floor loggia with Tuscan Doric antae. Central door, flanked by semicircular headed windows, originally the main entrance. Single sash window above, recessed in brick reveals under rubbed flat arch.

East elevation, two sash windows ground floor and first floor. South elevation has first floor two recessed sash windows, ground floor early C20 flat roofed projection, brick with stuccoed pantiled plinth, red brick pilasters with recessed stucco panels, deep stucco fascia, and red brick dentil course with moulded cornice. Three semicircular headed windows with stucco pilaster surrounds, Tuscan capitals and keystones. Recessed entrance at left, splayed return, with one semicircular headed window at right. Sash window with leaded light glazing. Two storey extension on west, 1850, distanced approximately 1.5m from original building on first floor, appears to have included a basement kitchen. Yellow-brown stock brick, stucco eaves cornice matching original building and Welsh slate roof, first floor with two recessed sash windows, and central blind recessed panel, all under rubbed flat arches, 1950s flat-roofed projection on ground floor. Further two storey extension at rear, with ground floor a half level above main building. Internally altered on ground floor. Further two storey extension at rear, with ground floor a half level above main building.

INTERIOR: altered early C20, when projection for lounge bar built, which retains its early C20 fittings, and again in 1950s, when the ground floor was opened out from the original
entrance to form a larger public bar.

A repeat of the Station Hotel exists at the Great Eastern Tavern, Railway Street, Hertford.

Listing NGR: TL3601314011

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26531331

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)