25, Baldock Street

TL3514SE 829-1/9/30 08/05/50

WARE TOWN BALDOCK STREET (West side) No.25

GV II

House, now offices. C16, with C18 and C19 alterations. Timber-framed, stucco faced (with traces of masonry lining), cement plinth. Old tiled roof with eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. First floor has 3 flush casements, divided by a mullion, with 9-paned iron casements. Modern pargeting and tilehung gable to north wall, exposed by demolition of adjacent outbuildings to No 27. Ground floor has 2 canted bay windows with sashes and glazing bars, beneath continuous jetty. Central early C19 door with 6 raised panels with reeded surrounds, in reveal with architrave. Plank door at right to twitchell giving access to rear yard. Rear elevation plastered with external plastered brick chimneybreast, and truncated brick stack above. Flush set sash window with glazing bars to first floor landing in projection with Welsh slated catslide roof. Long rear outshoot at right, along south boundary, plastered and weatherboarded over timber-framing, C18 and C19, with extensive C20 alterations at west end. INTERIOR: ground floor partly opened out. Early C18 ceilings, with coving and ornamental plaster bands with beaded edges and central bands of ribbons and fruit. C19 stair in re-entrant between frontage block and rear outshoot, with half glazed panelled door with small panes and margins, now enclosed within modern porch. Rear kitchen has late C18 fitted dresser and C18 fire surround. First floor south room has C18 ceiling with deep coving and decorated bands. 3 bay roof, with heavy section paired, halved rafters, side purlins with curved windbracing. Roof space subdivided with stud partitions possibly indicating use as attics, but no dormers apparently constructed. (Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-).

Listing NGR: TL3557614483