6, Baldock Street

TL3514SE 829-1/9/19 14/03/74

WARE TOWN BALDOCK STREET (East side) No.6

GV II

House, now offices. C17 with C19 front, and C19 rear wing. Timber-framed with stucco front over brick, steeply pitched old tiled roof, above cornice and parapet, over front range, 3 former box dormers removed in 1980s. Lower pitch Welsh slated roof with hipped end over rear range. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, with cellars and attics. 5 first floor sash windows with glazing bars, set in reveals, and one blank recess, third from right. Rusticated ground floor above cement plinth, with cellar vent at left. 4 ground floor sash windows, with glazing bars, set in reveals, recessed central 6 fielded-panel door, with rectangular fanlight. Carriageway on right with twin ledged, braced and battened door, with wicket in right hand leaf. C19 entry from carriageway with half glazed door with ornamental leaded lights, leaded 6 pane fanlight and leaded 10 pane sidelight. Rear has projecting bay with French casements on first floor and one tall 12 pane sash window on first floor, with Regency cast-iron balcony front. INTERIOR: includes panelled rooms on first floor. HISTORICAL NOTE: this property, with Nos 2 and 4 Baldock Street (qv) passed to the ownership of Trinity College, Cambridge at the Reformation as part of Henry VIII's founding endowment, and the land, extending originally to include The Manor House, Church Street (qv) had formed part of the property of the Carthusian Priory at Sheen before that. (Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 8; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-).

Listing NGR: TL3559414472