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Rankin House

A Grade II Listed Building in Ware, Hertfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8115 / 51°48'41"N

Longitude: -0.0322 / 0°1'55"W

OS Eastings: 535750

OS Northings: 214374

OS Grid: TL357143

Mapcode National: GBR KBL.BNT

Mapcode Global: VHGPH.DQBN

Plus Code: 9C3XRX69+J4

Entry Name: Rankin House

Listing Date: 8 May 1950

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1274184

English Heritage Legacy ID: 412415

ID on this website: 101274184

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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Description



WARE TOWN

TL3514SE WEST STREET
829-1/9/183 (North side)
08/05/50 No.8
Rankin House

II

House, subsequently `Town Hall', now offices. Early C18,
altered early C19. Brick, stucco faced, Welsh slated roof
behind parapet, with C20 box casement dormer, red brick
chimneystacks.
EXTERIOR: front elevation altered early C19, plinth, plat band
at first floor level, cornice, 5 first floor sash windows with
exposed boxes in shallow reveals, and small panes. Ground
floor with 4 long sash windows in shallow reveals with exposed
boxes, and small paned glazing. Central porch, 4 steps up from
ground level, with Greek Ionic columns, Tuscan Doric responds,
and entablature with fascia, frieze, cornice and blocking
course. 4 fielded panelled door with rectangular fanlight, and
pointed, arched glazing bars, in reveal below porch. Plain
rear elevation, 3 storeys, stuccoed with plat bands at first
and second floor levels, 5 flush set sash windows with glazing
bars first and second floors, altered ground floor with linked
mullion and transom casements, and central half-glazed door.
INTERIOR: double-pile plan comprises 4 rooms around a narrow
hall which traverses the house. Early C18 newel staircase with
square newels with recessed panels with bolection moulding,
moulded caps with cyma reversa, and sweeping moulded
handrails. Column on vase balusters, and heavy moulded close
string. Dado with moulded cap, and raised fielded panels with
bold cornices, pilaster with honeysuckle caps, and heavily
moulded fruit and flowers over arched niche in ground floor
left hand front roofs. The entrance hall has bands of
vitruvian scroll moulding, and arches supported on moulded
consoles. The building functioned as a privately run `Town
Hall' from 1867, administered by a syndicate of local
businessmen, and a meeting room was built behind it,
demolished in the 1950s.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N (rev. Cherry B):
Hertfordshire: Harmondsworth: 1977-: 379; Smith JT:
Hertfordshire Houses. Selective Inventory: London: 1993-:
199; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey
Department: 1851-; Moodey GE: East Hertfordshire
Archaeological Society Newsletter: Hertford: 1953-).


Listing NGR: TL3576614354

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