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Latitude: 51.8109 / 51°48'39"N
Longitude: -0.0308 / 0°1'51"W
OS Eastings: 535846
OS Northings: 214305
OS Grid: TL358143
Mapcode National: GBR KBL.K06
Mapcode Global: VHGPH.FR14
Plus Code: 9C3XRX69+9M
Entry Name: 54 54B, High Street
Listing Date: 14 March 1974
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1237635
English Heritage Legacy ID: 412345
ID on this website: 101237635
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
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WARE TOWN
TL3514SE HIGH STREET
829-1/9/108 (North side)
14/03/74 Nos.54 AND 54B
GV II
House, possibly part of The French Horn Inn in C17, now
commercial premises. C16 and C17, altered and refurbished
1980. Timber-framed, stucco-faced, old tiled roof, with one
box dormer, and gable on right.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. First floor has 3 flush-set
sash windows with divided glazing and exposed boxes: attic
gable at right has one flush-set sash window with glazing
bars. Ground floor has modern shopfronts. No.54, at right,
1980s arcaded timber shopfront, with recessed entrance door at
centre left. No.54b has mid C20 timber-framed shopfront with
plate glass display windows and timber fascia. It infills a
carriageway which served the east side of the French Horn
complex (qv). Ground floor gutted internally, and structure
covered over. First floor, opened up as office space in 1980s,
has exposed timber-framing with close-set heavy studwork of
C16/C17 origin with curved windbracing. Inserted C17
chimneystack. On first floor south elevation there is at left
hand a 3-light window with moulded wooden mullions, now
plaster filled, and not visible externally. Higher level of
first floor of No.54b, now part of open-plan first floor
indicates location of former carriageway on ground floor.
(Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses. Selective Inventory: London:
1993-: 198; Ware Tithe Map: 1845-; Ware 25" to 1 Mile.
Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; Forrester
H: Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin:
1964-: 41).
Listing NGR: TL3584614305
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