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Latitude: 51.8112 / 51°48'40"N
Longitude: -0.032 / 0°1'55"W
OS Eastings: 535763
OS Northings: 214339
OS Grid: TL357143
Mapcode National: GBR KBL.JQ0
Mapcode Global: VHGPH.DQFW
Plus Code: 9C3XRX69+F5
Entry Name: 78 80 82, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information)
Listing Date: 14 March 1974
Last Amended: 13 September 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1217434
English Heritage Legacy ID: 412359
ID on this website: 101217434
Location: Ware, East Hertfordshire, SG12
County: Hertfordshire
District: East Hertfordshire
Civil Parish: Ware
Built-Up Area: Ware
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Ware
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Building
WARE TOWN
TL3514SE HIGH STREET
829-1/9/123 (North side)
14/03/74 Nos.78, 80 AND 82
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
No.78)
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
Nos.80 AND 82)
GV II
Includes: No.12 WEST STREET.
House now with shops on ground floor and split ownership
above. Late C17 or early C18 with C19 and C20 alterations.
Timber-framed, colourwashed stucco, hipped old tiled roof
above coved cornice, 4 box dormers to front, one to west side.
Large red brick chimneystack above Nos 80 and 82.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, and attics. 5 windows, first and second
floors, flush set sash windows on first floor, with exception
of central C19 oriel bay window, and casement of No.80. Sashes
and casements on second floor. The deeply coved eaves cornice
breaks forward at original window positions on Nos 78 and 80,
which the present late C18 windows of No.78 do not fit. Ground
floor has mid C20 shopfront to No.78, at right, altered C19
shopfront to No.80, in centre, with pilaster surround, and
consoles flanking fascia below moulded cornice. C20 shopfront
to No.82 at left. No.78 projects beyond the street line and
has an overhanging jetty at its corner. First floor includes a
blanked out window to No.78, and one second floor casement to
No.82 beneath the cornice break indicating its correspondence
with the original fenestration. The moulded eaves cornice
extends only as far as the subdivision between Nos 82 and 80.
C20 and much altered C19 shopfronts on ground floor. Rear
entrance of No.78 numbered as `12 West Street'.
INTERIOR: of No.82 retains part of closed string newel stair
with splat balusters, curved around the well.
In 1770s No.80 was The Fox and Goose public house, and No.82
The Old Punch House, subsequently known as The Oriental Tavern
in C19 and early C20.
(Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or
historic interest: 1993-: 48; Forrester H: Timber Framed
Buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 47).
Listing NGR: TL3577114338
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