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)

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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

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)