Description

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET
829-1/9/81 (North side)
01/11/72 No.12

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.8, 10 AND 12 HIGH STREET.
Former maltsters house with adjoining yard and malt house,
became shop late C19, and shopfront inserted on ground floor.
Mid C18, altered C19, altered and extended 1920s. Dark red
brick with orange dressings laid to Flemish Bond. Painted
bands at first floor level, cill level, moulded cornice above
first floor window heads, moulded band above second floor
window heads. Hipped old tiled roof behind parapet.
EXTERIOR: front range 3 storeys. First and second floors, 4
sash windows with glazing bars flush-set with exposed boxes,
under rubbed flat arches. On ground floor at left is C18 six
panelled front door in pilaster surround, probably removed
from the side entrance in 1920s. Present shopfront dates from
1920s, when Enfield Highway Co-operative Society greatly
extended the premises at right (eastwards) along Star Street,
as single storey range, building across yard, creating a
series of retail units. Narrow tiled stallrisers, bronze
cilled and mullioned, plate glass windows, wooden paned upper
lights with ornamental stained glass, with pattern of swags
and pendants. Deep fascia and blind box.
Rear outshoot mid C18, dark red brick laid to Flemish Bond,
old tiled roof behind parapet with one hipped dormer, with
casement window and moulded cornice, one flat-roofed modern
dormer with modern casement windows, slablike brick
chimneystack rises from parapet at rear. 2 storeys, first
floor 3 sash windows with glazing bars under rubbed flat
arches with 2 C20 windows under reduced opening, and blank
recess, ground floor partly demolished in 1920s when shop
opened out.
Rear range late C17, dark red brick, old tiled roof with eaves
course of Welsh slate, 2 dormers with casements, moulded
cornice and hipped tiled roofs, slablike brick chimneystack
forming parapet to roof at right hand rear gable, left hand
gable parapeted and stucco covered. 2 storeys and attics.
Ground floor and first floor, 4 bays, 3 mullion and transom
windows, in shallow reveals, with C19 wooden casements, ground
floor windows under segmental arches: first floor left hand
window retains original leaded-light glazing, with exception
of lower left light, which has C19 casement. Second bay from
left has archaic Venetian landing window, in round arched
recess, with heavy pegged frames and leaded lights.
INTERIOR of front of building gutted and floor lowered early
1920s. West ground floor of rear wing retains simple wooden
dado with recessed panels. First floor front rooms altered
1920s with insertion of concrete stair from side entrance on
ground floor. Landing in rear outshoot contains wooden dog-leg
stair, mid C18, which originally ran from ground floor. Open
string construction, newels with fluted columns, with Tuscan
capitals, and moulded caps, foliated tread ends, turned
balusters with pillar and urn, surmounted by iron twists,
ramped moulded handrails. Dado with moulded rail, fielded and
raised panels with quadrant moulding. First floor landing part
panelled above dado, dentil frieze and moulded cornice. Long
C18 window on half landing with sashes with heavy quadrant
glazing bars and panelled shutters in reveals. Front right
hand attic has simple architrave fire surround with moulded
support to mantelshelf. Simple 2 panel doors to closets, left
and right. Rear wing has simple dog-leg newel stair, with
turned balusters and moulded handrail, running from ground
floor to attics. First floor rooms have simple dado with
moulded rail.
In C18 the house was the home of the Burr family, prominent
Quaker maltsters, and the Friends Meeting House (demolished
1889) was directly behind, with its main entrance from Kibes
Lane.
(Edwards E and Perman D: Ware's Past In Pictures: Ware: 1991-:
89; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or
historic interest: 1993-: 40; Ware Tithe Map: 1845-; Ware 25"
to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department:
1851-).

Listing NGR: TL3597514246

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512144

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