1-4, Leaside Walk

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE LEASIDE WALK 829-1/9/139 (East side) Nos.1-4 (Consecutive)

GV II

Former Sunday School, now converted to 4 residential units. 1858-9, extended 1884. Coursed limestone rubble, with ashlar limestone dressings, and moulded band. Welsh slate roof with gable parapets and moulded eaves cornice supported on projecting square corbel blocks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Shallow T-plan, with central projection and right hand wing forming the 1884 extension. 4 windows: central gabled projection with 3 blank semicircular arched recesses: 4 windows. Romanesque style. Windows have semicircular arched ashlar heads, linked by small arches above moulded imposts, and ashlar reveals and quoin surrounds. All windows have modern lattice glazing in stained timber subframes. Ground floor had 3 similar windows, centre now rebuilt to form door, and original entrance doors remain at extreme left and right, with chamfered ashlar surrounds and shouldered lintels. Ground floor central entrance door, created 1884, removed during residential conversion. The Sunday School was contemporary with the rebuilding of the church, and was paid for by the maltster Joseph Chuck. The Sunday School was converted to residential units in the early 1980s. The building forms the setting for the Leaside Church (qv). Included for group value. (Edwards E and Perman D: Ware's Past In Pictures: Ware: 1991-: 125).

Listing NGR: TL3586714318