Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL53NE REDGATES LANE, Sewards End
669-1/4/383 No.13
17/06/82 Sewards End Farmhouse

II

House. C17 with C19 additions, refaced in 1948. Timber-framed
and plastered, red brick, peg-tiled roofs. Plan rectangular. 2
storeys and attic and cellars. Front S elevation: twin gables
with rebuilt cruciform stack between and central projecting
front doorway. Brick faced, shaped barge-boards to gables and
porch. 2 window range, all 1948. 3-light casements with
transoms 3x4 panes in all. Doorway has moulded architrave,
overlight, moulded 4 panel door. Stack set low between gables,
flank of gable to E at E end. Rear N elevation: twin gables as
front, timber-framed and plastered above brick base. Central
C19 stacks to each, E one exterior. 4 scattered windows, 1
ground floor metal framed C19 with 3 lancet heads, one sliding
sash window on first floor, single attic window to each gable.
W side elevation: S end brick as on front with contemporary
3-cant ground floor bay window. To N, plastered framing over
brick base, 3 window first floor range of C19 sliding sashes
plus 2-light casement window inserted. Ground floor, 2 doors,
one 3-light sliding sash window with inserted 2-light
casement, simple long 4-light window, cellar hatch door. E
side elevation: front unit of house projects as gabled wing,
brick faced. N return wall timber-framed and plastered, range
to N also bricked, scattered casement windows mainly from
refurbishment. Central ridge stack with hipped dormer window
in line. 2-light casement. Single boarded door. N end gable
stack visible.
INTERIOR: not inspected but house appears to have begun as a
2-celled lobby entrance building re-aligned in C19 at right
angles as 2 parallel ranges. Front elevation wall was
plastered framing up to 1948.

Listing NGR: TL5711138536

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585296

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback