26 High Street And 16 East Street

TL3514SE 829-1/9/90 14/03/74

WARE TOWN HIGH STREET (North side) No.26

GV II

Includes: No.16 EAST STREET. House, now shop with offices above. Early C16, altered C18, front refaced C19 and C20. Timber-framed, jettied, front has colourwashed stucco to first floor and attic. Modern machine tiled roof with 1 box dormer to attics at right hand side. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics, with gable end facing street, 4 bay structure, with upper floor open hall in 2 centre bays. First floor has 3-light wooden mullion and transom window with casements; attic has 2-light modern mullion and transom window with casements. Ground floor has modern shopfront, part aluminium framed, with boxed out fascia, moulded blind box and cornice above may be survival of C19 shopfront. Rear elevation faces East Street. 2 storeys and attics, with 2 C20 sash windows in moulded surrounds on first floor. Modern lean-to conceals jetty. Early C16 moulded bracket, above moulded cap to post, and moulded bressumer cover exposed within lean-to at foot of modern stair. INTERIOR: original first floor open-hall in 2 centre bays, with studded partitions, with wattle and daub infill subdividing end bays. Heavy jowled posts and tie-beam, now lacking braces, supporting open roof, now closed within C18 attics, further altered by C20 rooflights and light wells through attic. Close heavy studding exposed in first floor front. Roof structure over hall and rear bay exposed in attic. Principal rafters with cambered collars, side purlins, and curved windbracing, some now cut and missing. Rafters all originally halved and pegged, many now cut, and replaced. Front bay facing High Street has later, C18 roof with side purlins, rafters with ridge board.

Listing NGR: TL3592214274