49 51, HIGH STREET

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/106 (South side) 14/03/74 Nos.49 AND 51 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET No.49) (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET No.51)

GV II

Former inn, subsequently 2 houses, now in commercial use with flats over. C16, rebuilt C17, with C19 and C20 alterations. Timber-framed, stucco facing, old tiled roof with broad cornice, 2 box casement dormers with C20 windows. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. Jettied first floor with canted oriel bay at left with C19 sash windows (No.49), 2 flush sash windows (No.51). Ground floor of No.49 at left has modern shopfront beneath jetty, flanked by C19 fluted pilasters, surmounted by paired profiled console brackets. 1980s shopfront to No.51 at right, with tiled stallriser and pilasters, framing bold modern timber-framed windows, with recessed entrance with glazed door at right. Central carriageway with exposed timber beams above, twin leaf timber doors, with wicket. 2 storey rear outshoots, timber-framed, plastered with old tiled roofs, altered 1980s. No.49 has 5 flush set sash windows on first floor, 1 on ground floor, and blocked C18 doorway with architrave surround and flat moulded head on cut profiled console brackets. No.51 has a similar doorway and 2 C19 4-light cast-iron casement windows on ground floor. INTERIOR of No.49 has close string newel stair with turned balusters. Ground floor of No.51 now opened out, with C18 fire surrounds remaining on first floor and in attic. Sash windows of early C18 pattern with quadrant bars and crown glass. Tie beams and heavy rafters exposed within rear outshoot refurbished 1980s. No.51 was originally The Falcon Inn but had become The Bear Inn by end C15. It subsequently became a house, and a maltings was built behind it, which later became the Falcon Ironworks and Foundry (now rebuilt as a printing works, not included). The small-paned cast-iron casement windows here and elsewhere in the town were manufactured on this site. (Edwards E and Perman D: Ware's Past In Pictures: Ware: 1991-: 62; Hunt EM: The History of Ware: Hertford: 1986-1946: 97; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 30; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-).

Listing NGR: TL3579914288