Description

TL5338
669-1/1/231

SAFFRON WALDEN

HIGH STREET
(East side)
Dance School, former maltings

GV
II

Dance school, former maltings in the Central Arcade. Mid C19.
Yellow, Flemish bond gault brickwork with gabled slate roof. 3
low storeys with single storey part to W with entrance. Second
floor has 5 rectangular openings with horizontal ventilator
strips. First floor has five 2-light casement windows with
segmental arched heads and a double-hung sash window with 16
panes. Ground floor has a door opening, a blocked door
opening, 3 similar segmental arched 2-light casements and 2
blind arches. These are semicircular and formerly and open
arcade with central pier and strings at springing. One is now
infilled with brick, the other part boarded and each with a
2-light casement. The building, formerly extended W to the
High Street and remnants of 2 further arches of the arcade are
now part of a slate roofed lean-to block. This now has a 4
pane window and a segmental headed 4 pane window. The frontage
to High Street has 2 painted brick piers with ball finials and
parapet between. Between these is a door of moulded panels in
a elliptical brick arch with bowtel moulding, all round,
interrupted by moulded small capitals and bases.

Listing NGR: TL5374038411

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490742

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]