78 80 82, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information)

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/123 (North side) 14/03/74 Nos.78, 80 AND 82 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET No.78) (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET Nos.80 AND 82)

GV II

Includes: No.12 WEST STREET. House now with shops on ground floor and split ownership above. Late C17 or early C18 with C19 and C20 alterations. Timber-framed, colourwashed stucco, hipped old tiled roof above coved cornice, 4 box dormers to front, one to west side. Large red brick chimneystack above Nos 80 and 82. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, and attics. 5 windows, first and second floors, flush set sash windows on first floor, with exception of central C19 oriel bay window, and casement of No.80. Sashes and casements on second floor. The deeply coved eaves cornice breaks forward at original window positions on Nos 78 and 80, which the present late C18 windows of No.78 do not fit. Ground floor has mid C20 shopfront to No.78, at right, altered C19 shopfront to No.80, in centre, with pilaster surround, and consoles flanking fascia below moulded cornice. C20 shopfront to No.82 at left. No.78 projects beyond the street line and has an overhanging jetty at its corner. First floor includes a blanked out window to No.78, and one second floor casement to No.82 beneath the cornice break indicating its correspondence with the original fenestration. The moulded eaves cornice extends only as far as the subdivision between Nos 82 and 80. C20 and much altered C19 shopfronts on ground floor. Rear entrance of No.78 numbered as `12 West Street'. INTERIOR: of No.82 retains part of closed string newel stair with splat balusters, curved around the well. In 1770s No.80 was The Fox and Goose public house, and No.82 The Old Punch House, subsequently known as The Oriental Tavern in C19 and early C20. (Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 48; Forrester H: Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 47).

Listing NGR: TL3577114338