96 96A, HIGH STREET

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/132 (North side) 14/03/74 Nos.96 AND 96A (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET No.96)

GV II

House, later shop, with offices above. C17, altered C19. Timber-framed, colourwashed plaster and stucco, old tiled roof with gables facing High Street and West Street (No.96A accessible from West Street). Tall red brick chimney at right with yellow brick stack behind. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. 3 bay structure, part of encroachment on west market place. 2 first floor C19 flush-set sash windows with divided glazing, early C20 casement window to attic. Ground floor has C19 shopfront with timber pilasters at side and framing central entrance. Timber stallrisers, with arcaded windows above, timber fascia, with moulded cornice. Rear elevation facing West Street numbered 96A, stucco faced with masonry lining. 2 storeys, with 2 mullion and transom windows, ground and first floor, slightly recessed on ground floor, and recessed door, with heavy timber surround, and raised door hood with moulded fascia, console brackets, and moulded broken cornice, with small dentil frieze. Attic corbelled out on timber console brackets, with timber bressumer exposed, below stucco faced gable, with one central C19 mullion and transom window with opening casements. Lowered C17 narrow red brick chimneystack at left with 2 terracotta pots. (Edwards E and Perman D: Ware's Past In Pictures: Ware: 1991-: 84).

Listing NGR: TL3571814360