Ware Museum is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Museum. 1 related planning application.
Ware Museum
- WRENN ID
- vacant-hammer-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- Ware Museum, 89, High Street, SG12 9AD
- OS grid reference
- TL 356 143
- Coordinates
- 51.81154, -0.03401
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ware Museum, originally a lodge to the Priory, was built around 1852 by Walter Hitch, a local builder. It is constructed of red-brown stock brick in Flemish bond and features a Welsh slated roof with a brick chimney. The building is single storey and has a projecting canted bay window with a brick spandrel, as well as mullioned wood casement windows that include glazing bars and a low lead-covered hipped roof. The entrance is set back to the right and features a re-set 17th-century studded panelled door beneath a cambered arch. The gable end is adorned with pierced, fretted moulded barge boards. The museum is associated with the adjoining property at No. 87 and serves as a visual stop in views westward along the south side of the High Street. It is included for its group value.
Local climate
Ware Museum sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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