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WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/101 (South side) 08/05/50 Nos.37, 37A (part), 39A/B AND 41 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET Nos.37, 37A AND 37B) (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET Nos.39 AND 41)

GV II

Hall house, converted to inn C18, now subdivided into ground floor commercial premises (Nos 37 & 41) with flats above (No.37A which includes first floor above No.35 (qv), Nos 39A & 39B). Late C15, altered C17, C18, ground floors rebuilt 1960s and 1990. Timber-framed, with plaster front, above ground floor shopfronts. Steeply pitched old tiled roof, with left hand end hipped. Cruciform-plan shafted brick chimneystack. Front block has 4-bay modified cross passage plan, with upper hall. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. First floor jettied, with moulded fascia over No.41. One flush sash window with glazing bars to No.37A (above No.37) and 5 plain glazed flush set sash windows to No.39A (above No.41). Ground floor of No.37 at left has early C19 shopfront with timber pilasters, projecting segmental bow window, divided into 3 by mullions, fascia with moulded cornice above, broken by segmental section above shop window. Modern half glazed door in pilaster surround at left. Carriageway to right of shopfront, with exposed post, and exposed timber-framing, with twin blocked ogee headed door openings on right. Ground floor of No.41, to right of carriageway has 1990 arcaded shop window with 2 runs, oak frames and glazed entrance door, modern fascia with applied mouldings. Rear wing behind No.41 (No.41 on ground floor; No.39B on first floor), has 2 storeys, plum brick with red dressings, first floor and eaves level plat bands, 3 first floor flush set sash windows with glazing bars and exposed boxes under cambered red rubbed arches, old tiled roof behind parapet. Rear outshoot continues as timber-framed structure, with red brick ground floor, weatherboarded first floor, and tiled roof, restored 1990. INTERIOR: little of interest visible on ground floors of No.37 or No.41. At rear of No.41, within ground floor of C18 rear outshoot there is a mid C18 staircase, L-plan, open-well, with open string, and profiled brackets to treads, column-on-vase balusters, curtail step, ramped and wreathed handrail, panelled dado, altered in lower flight in 1990. First floor, No.39A has C18 cornice to left hand room, and exposed studwork of central arch-braced tie-beam truss. Inserted chimneystack at left hand in party wall to No.37A. Roof with halved and pegged rafters, close studded partition, with wattle and daub infill one bay from left; crown post with downward curved bracing on partition. Free standing cruciform-plan late C15 crown post, with curved braces fore and aft to collar purlin, and transverse to collar; adjacent to inserted stack there appears to be a second free standing crown post of the same pattern. Roof strengthened with sprung steel braces and ties 1990. Interior of No.39B at rear has mid C18 panelled room with recessed panels, moulded dado and cornice, fire surround with pilasters, and overmantel with moulded architrave, recessed panel, and projecting pilaster caps, breaking cornice above. Rear part of outshoot converted to flat in 1990, and has 4 bay timber-frame with exposed C17 tie-beam trusses with coach-nailed arch braces, queen struts and collars. Repairs in 1990 include new timbers crafted in using a revival of the archaic stop-splayed scarf joint. (Edwards E and Perman D: Ware's Past In Pictures: Ware: 1991-: 90-1; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 29; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; Forrester H: Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 37).

Listing NGR: TL3583614278

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