45, Baldock Street

WARE TOWN

TL3514NE BALDOCK STREET 829-1/7/39 (West side) 08/05/50 No.45

GV II

House, now offices. C16, altered C18 and C19. Timber-framed, stuccoed, old tiled roof with 2 box casement dormers, central red brick chimneystack with oversailing course and 3 terracotta pots. 2 cell plan with no sign of chimney in original building; the existing stack is a later insertion. 2 storeys, and attics with continuous jettied first floor oversailing on wooden brackets and 2 flush set sash windows with glazing bars. Ground floor has 2 early C19 canted bay windows, with modern plate glass. Central doorway, with half-glazed door in reveal. INTERIOR: internal exposure of timber-framing, particularly in attics, where a former 2 bay crown-post roof structure was removed to create a useable space. (Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses. Selective Inventory: London: 1993-: 144, 195).

Listing NGR: TL3558614560