27 High Street and attached rear outshoot and barn

This is a late 16th and early 17th century inn, with later 18th and 20th century alterations, now a bank. It is timber-framed, with a rusticated stucco exterior and an early 19th century refronting. The building has an old tiled roof edged with Welsh slates. The left-hand bay, beyond the carriageway, is now part of the adjacent building at No. 25.

The exterior is two storeys high, with a plinth and a plat band at first-floor level. There are four first-floor sash windows with glazing bars, flush-set with exposed boxes. A carriageway is on the left side of the ground floor. A mid-20th century ground-floor window with glazing bars has been inserted. The main entrance is on the right, up four stone steps, leading to an eight-panelled door with a rectangular fanlight within a moulded architrave surround, topped with consoles and an open pediment. A long rear outshoot has a timber-frame, with masonry-lined stucco over brick on the east and plaster-moulded bressumers above the first-floor windows, and a moulded eaves cornice on the west. Adjacent to the outshoot is a barn with a timber-frame, a red brick ground floor, weatherboarding above and an old tiled roof.

The interior of No. 27 features moulded early 18th century wood cornices and 17th-century panelling, some of which has been re-used, on the first floor, painted white. In 2021, evidence was discovered of a complete suite of contemporary wall paintings from around 1600 on at least two walls. The roof over the front block is of clasped purlin construction, with windbracing and collars. The roof of the rear outshoot has principal rafters with a heavy section, curved near the base, and supported on a substantial plate that does not align with the external wall.

The site has been associated with historic inns in Ware and may have been connected to The George Inn at times. It was once known as The Horn Inn, and in the 18th and 19th centuries, as The White House Inn.