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Latitude: 51.8103 / 51°48'37"N
Longitude: -0.0307 / 0°1'50"W
OS Eastings: 535857
OS Northings: 214243
OS Grid: TL358142
Mapcode National: GBR KBL.K1H
Mapcode Global: VHGPH.FR3L
Plus Code: 9C3XRX69+4P
Entry Name: 29, High Street
Listing Date: 14 March 1974
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1274650
English Heritage Legacy ID: 412330
ID on this website: 101274650
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
829-1/9/93 (South side)
14/03/74 No.29
GV II
House, now bank. c1833 with late C19 and mid C20 alterations.
Red brick front, parapet with stone coping, Welsh slated roof.
Slight setback to left, with carriageway under elliptical
arch, with twin leaf gates.
3 storeys, plinth, broad painted plat bands at floor levels.
1:4 sash windows with glazing bars, in reveals under rubbed
flat arches. 5 stone steps up to door, C19 wrought-iron
railings. 6 fielded panelled door and fanlight with radiating
glazing bars in arched panelled reveal, surround with Tuscan
Doric pilasters, entablature with triglyph frieze and
modillions. Modern, mid C20 multi-paned ground floor windows.
Large mid C20 banking hall at rear, not of special interest.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this building occupies the historic site of
The George Inn, recorded in 1490, and for several centuries
one of the principal inns of the town. Housed `The Great Bed
of Ware' in early C18, and visited by Isaak Walton, mentioned
in The Compleat Angler. Acquired by Robert Sworder, and c1833
demolished, and the present house built for John Sworder.
(Heath C: The Book of Ware. A Portrait of the Town: Chesham:
1977-: 12, 14, 17; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the
Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; Hunt EM: The History of
Ware: Hertford: 1986-1946: 111-116; Perman D: Ware UD. List of
buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 27).
Listing NGR: TL3585714243
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