Crib House

WARE TOWN

TL3514NE CRIB STREET 829-1/7/63 (East side) 14/03/74 No.40 Crib House (Formerly Listed as: CRIB STREET No.40)

GV II

House, 2 structures, later public house. C16 and C17, with C19 alterations, restored and part rebuilt 1990. Right hand shares structure with No.38 (qv), timber-framed, with smooth render finish to front, side and rear dark stained weatherboarding, old tiled roof, brick chimneystack shared with No.38. 2 storeys, first floor single-light sash, ground floor triple-light sash, both with glazing bars and flush set. 4 flush panel door in plain wooden reveal and surround, elaborate cut console brackets to hood. To left is earlier structure, C16, timber-framed and smooth rendered, with steeper pitch old tiled roof. 2 storeys, first floor jettied on cut wooden bracket, and beam ends exposed, with one flush set sash window with exposed boxes and glazing bars. Ground floor one sliding Yorkshire casement, flush set with glazing bars. Both windows appear to be reproductions of earlier windows, installed during 1990 restoration. 2-storeyed rear extension built 1990. Together with No.38, this was The Red Cow Public House during the C19 until the 1930s. (Hunt EM: The History of Ware: Hertford: 1986-1946: 99; 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-: 21; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-).

Listing NGR: TL3575214557