50, Crib Street

WARE TOWN

TL3514NE CRIB STREET 829-1/7/67 (East side) 14/03/74 No.50

GV II

Late C15, with mid C20 south extension. Timber-framed, colourwashed pebbledash over painted flush brick plinth, with gable of old tiled roof facing street. Red brick chimneystack shared with No.52 (qv) with oversailing course and 4 pots. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, first floor jettied, over 3 curved wooden brackets. One 3-light wooden casement, with leaded glazing. Ground floor has one 3 and one 2-light casement with leaded glazing. Pantile-roofed plastered and brick single storey mid C20 lean-to at right, with recessed entrance door beneath first floor overhang. INTERIOR has 2 bay timber-framed structure, possibly a cross-wing to hall to the north. Ground floor has a moulded Tudor-arched door head to south wall of front room. Heavy exposed studwork, and shutter grooves visible over ground floor windows. First floor has 2 rooms, with a studded partition between; C18 plank doors, mortices for wooden mullions for windows in side wall, one in situ, and shutter grooves over first floor front window. Unmoulded crown post roof, with fore and aft bracing to collar purlin, exposed in rear chamber. Fireplaces built late C16 outside original structure: wooden lintel on ground floor; stucco-covered moulded elliptical brick arch over first floor fireplace. (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-: 22; Forrester H: Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 41; Moodey GE: East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter: Hertford: 1953-).

Listing NGR: TL3576014594