18, High Street

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/84 (North side) 01/11/72 No.18

GV II

House, now ground floor shop with offices above, (upper rooms of No.20 (qv), now take access from No.18). C18, with C19 front, reconstructed internally in 1972. Red brick front, with yellow brick quoins, and moulded red brick dentil cornice, Welsh slated roof with red ridge tiles behind parapet. 4 plain glazed sash windows, in reveals under red rubbed arches on first floor, 4 sash windows with glazing bars on second floor. Ground floor shopfront contained by brick pilasters at either side surmounted by coarsely detailed Tuscan capitals, and bold overhanging paired consoles, with frieze and pediments. C19 shopfront with stucco stallriser, plate glass windows in moulded timber frames, and twin cast-iron columns, with simplified Corinthian capitals, either side of canted recessed entrance, with glazed door. Fascia above with modern timber boarding and recessed void for former blind box. Modern single storey extension, with pantiled roof, at rear.

Listing NGR: TL3595514251