81, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1974. House, shop. 4 related planning applications.
81, High Street
- WRENN ID
- riven-pavement-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1974
- Type
- House, shop
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
WARE TOWN
TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/125 (South side) 14/03/74 No.81
GV II
House, now shops with flat above. 1833, dated on rainwater head. Built for Ware Gas Light and Coke Company, ground floor rebuilt 1954. Yellow stock brick, Welsh slated roof, with 2 brick chimneys with square terracotta pots. 2 storeys. 3 first floor sash windows with glazing bars in reveals under flat arches. Ground floor has Neo-Georgian shopfront with entablatures, central pediment above Doric pilasters enclosing recessed entrance, with twin leaded glazed doors under semicircular fanlight with radiating glazing bars and moulded archivolt. Site of The Checker Inn, first recorded 1509. The C19 rebuilding incorporates some reused timber, as indicated by a moulded beam, used as a purlin in the roof of the rear outshoot. (Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 35).
Listing NGR: TL3568414328
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