Description

WARE TOWN

TL3514NE CRIB STREET
829-1/7/67 (East side)
14/03/74 No.50

GV II

Late C15, with mid C20 south extension. Timber-framed,
colourwashed pebbledash over painted flush brick plinth, with
gable of old tiled roof facing street. Red brick chimneystack
shared with No.52 (qv) with oversailing course and 4 pots.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, first floor jettied, over 3 curved wooden
brackets. One 3-light wooden casement, with leaded glazing.
Ground floor has one 3 and one 2-light casement with leaded
glazing. Pantile-roofed plastered and brick single storey mid
C20 lean-to at right, with recessed entrance door beneath
first floor overhang.
INTERIOR has 2 bay timber-framed structure, possibly a
cross-wing to hall to the north. Ground floor has a moulded
Tudor-arched door head to south wall of front room. Heavy
exposed studwork, and shutter grooves visible over ground
floor windows. First floor has 2 rooms, with a studded
partition between; C18 plank doors, mortices for wooden
mullions for windows in side wall, one in situ, and shutter
grooves over first floor front window. Unmoulded crown post
roof, with fore and aft bracing to collar purlin, exposed in
rear chamber. Fireplaces built late C16 outside original
structure: wooden lintel on ground floor; stucco-covered
moulded elliptical brick arch over first floor fireplace.
(Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England): An
Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire:
London: 1910-: 230; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of
special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 22; Forrester H:
Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-:
41; Moodey GE: East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society
Newsletter: Hertford: 1953-).

Listing NGR: TL3576014594

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26564437

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