Description

WARE TOWN

TL3513NE LONDON ROAD
829-1/13/143 (South side)
14/03/74 No.16
Brook House
(Formerly Listed as:
LONDON ROAD
No.16)

II

House. C18, over earlier timber frame; bricks on front near
front door dated 1737, and initialed GW, WEW, and WP. Plum red
brickwork with cherry red dressings, old tiled roof edged with
Welsh slates above wooden eaves cornice.
2 storeys and attics. 2 box casement dormers. Plat band at
first floor level, brick full height brick Tuscan pilasters at
ends, with entablatures. Sash windows with glazing bars, 3 on
first floor recessed in reveals; 2 on ground floor nearly
flush set with exposed boxes and moulded architraves, under
flat rubbed brick arches. 6 panel door, 4 panels fielded, top
2 glazed, in reveal, with architrave surround under frieze and
cornice hood. C19 rear wing in yellow-grey brick with Welsh
slated roof.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N (rev. Cherry B):
Hertfordshire: Harmondsworth: 1977-: 381; Perman D: Ware UD.
List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-:
51; Moodey GE: East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society
Newsletter: Hertford: 1975-).

Listing NGR: TL3595113921

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512168

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