Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 HIGH STREET
669-1/1/187 (West side)
29/08/69 No.17

GV II

Shop and flats. Early C19 and earlier. Timber-framed and
rendered and painted Flemish bond brickwork front to High
Street. Roof of front range is hipped and part slate, part
plain machine made clay tiles. Parallel rear range and long
range at right angles to rear with plain tile roofs. 2 storeys
and complex plan form. Front has pulvinated frieze and 4 giant
Doric pilasters, one returning on N flank. Centre bay is
slightly recessed. First floor has three 12 paned double hung
sash windows and ground floor has 2 tripartite double hung
sash windows with small panes in upper halves. Central
doorcase with moulded cornice, moulded architrave and panelled
reveals. Rectangular fanlight over door now infilled. Exposed
N flank to access way is of ashlared render with a double-hung
hung sash window on each floor with moulded surrounds and 8
large square panes. Small hipped roofed parallel 2-storey
range to rear. 2 flat roofed extensions, one single and one of
2 storeys to the W. Behind this is a long rear range at right
angles with gabled W end abutting a C19 rear extension with
scalloped pargetting on its N flank. Large red brick cruciform
plan stack over front range and smaller rectangular stack
adjoining, also stack on long rear range. Interior not
inspected.

Listing NGR: TL5366538508

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490728

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