Brewery Tap

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/127 (South side) 08/05/50 No.83 Brewery Tap

GV II

Former inn range, subsequently with brewery at rear, now public house with flat over. C15, later heightened, and refronted late C18, early C19 shopfront and later alterations. C18 front of red and grey brick with red brick dressings, encasing earlier timber-framed structure. Welsh slated steeply pitched roof with bracketed cornice, plastered side gable with flush set attic windows. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attics. First and second floors have 4 irregularly spaced sash windows with glazing bars, almost flush set with exposed boxes, under rubbed flat arches. Plat bands at first and second floor level. Ground floor left, east of carriageway has one sash window; to right (west) fine late C18 or early C19 shopfront with twin bow windows, with glazing bars, reeded pilasters with paterae, central door, with 4 recessed panels, and rectangular fanlight above, under fret architrave, fascia, moulded cornice, and is surmounted by wrought-iron balcony railing. Carriageway has timber posts with Tuscan Doric caps and bressumer with recessed panel. Framed and panelled gates, with wicket door in right hand leaf. C15 timber-framed arched door in left hand of carriageway. Building plastered at rear with old tiled roofs. Long rear 2 storey outshoot, weatherboarded on east, red brick on west, C18 and C19, functioned as brewery. Altered and extended mid 1970s architects Adams Huntley. Extensive part-vaulted C18 and C19 cellars. Exposed beams ground floor and first floors indicate timber-framed origins and subsequent alterations but original layout and structure much altered. Site of The Horseshoe Inn, recorded 1509, later known as The Golden Cross Inn, giving the name Starcross Row to this part of High Street, in conjunction with the nearby Star Inn. (Edwards E and Perman D: Ware's Past In Pictures: Ware: 1991-: 97; Hunt EM: The History of Ware: Hertford: 1986-1946: 99; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 36; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; Forrester H: Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 38, 46-7; Branch Johnson W: Hertfordshire Inns: Letchworth: 1962-: 97; Moodey GE: East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter: Hertford: 1962-).

Listing NGR: TL3566714330