Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CASTLE STREET 669-1/1/47 (North side) 01/11/72 Nos.1 AND 3

GV II

2 houses, one with shop. c1600 with early/mid C19 re-fronting. Plastered timber framing and gault brick, peg-tiled roofs. Plan uneven U form of timber-framed street range and E rear wing together with later rear lean-to additions projecting deeply at W end. 2 storeys and cellar. Front, S elevation: brick, 3 window and 3 door range, all essentially C19. Ground floor, all doors and window have cement voussoirs, E-W, No.3, sash window, glazing bars, 4x4 panes, simple C19 doorway with 4 panel door, lower pair flush, slight break forward of house wall, No.1, similar window to No.3, boarded cellar opening below. Doorway with over-light, door of 4 moulded panels, shop window, central stile, 2 plain panes, shop doorway, door has 2 upper glazed lights and single moulded lower panes. First floor, E-W, No.3 sliding sash window, 6x3 panes, No.1, 2 sliding sash windows 4x3 panes with moulded architraves, decorative soffits and projecting barge-boards decorated with face and leaves. Stack at E end , off-centre to front and set away from principal roof. Second stack behind roof apex of No.1. Rear, N elevation: principal range and E wing. 3 lean-to units with stack of 2 conjoined builds rising through roof pitch at junction of Nos 1 & 3, behind original house. C18/19 rendered at base and probably older, C20 addition to W. E wing wall plates of framing visible. C19 4-panel door, upper 2 now glazed, conjoined single light C20 window under common weathering hood with door. To W, brick lean-to, slated, 2 C20 single light casement windows. To W, (No.1) C19 timber-framed slated lean-to with contemporary boarded door and 2x2 paned casement window. Above, stacks have adjacent dormer window with slate roof swept from apex of house. W end lean-to somewhat obscured but timber-framed, with corrugated iron roof. E end elevation: gable end of street range has gault brick facing with stack projecting to W. Principal roof set back with lower hip, roof side purlin visible, rear wing to N slightly set back has lower brickwork, rendered, timber framing above. INTERIOR: No.3, whole house timber-framed, brickwork secondary, framing masked but shape of principal members clearly visible. No.1, shop has central binding ceiling joist exposed with late C16 bold, well executed lamb's tongue chamfer stops. Common joists now boarded over, probably similarly decorated.

Listing NGR: TL5360138626

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