Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CASTLE STREET 669-1/1/61 (South side) 28/11/51 Nos.20, 22 AND 24

GV II

Nos 20 & 22, house and shop, now one property. Part of a series of conjoined C16 and C17 units, early C19 shopfront and early C20 refurbishment, restoration of rear. Timber-framed and plastered, some exposed timber, peg-tiled roof. Plan, long curved range to corner with Museum Street, roughly central cross unit projecting at rear in T form. 2 storeys. Front, N elevation: can be divided - W of gabled cross-wing (No.20), short timber-framed unit with C20 timber-framed lean-to porch with boarded and battened door, above, exposed studding with a mid C16 3-light mullioned window, mullions have roll and hollow mouldings. W end unit - exposed framing clearly once a jettied cross-wing, upper jowled posts to tie-beam, below, bull-nose jetty joists now supported by original inner framed wall, now set forward flush with front, roof now fully hipped. First floor window, 2-light casement with glazing bars, 4x3 panes. Ground floor, early C20 applied ovolo-moulded 3-light window, leaded lattice panes. Central gabled unit has C20 rendering and C19 ornate cusped barge-boards, ground floor, C20 bay window in early C19 style, flat leaded roof, glazing bars, 5x4 panes, 1x4 in return faces. First floor, 2-light C20 casement window 4x2 panes. To E of gabled unit (No.22), exposed framing, roof ridge lifts, ground floor, early C19 bow-fronted shop window on brick plinth, 7x4 panes, curved ends 1x4 panes. Adjacent early C19 door, thin glazing bars to upper lights, 2x2 panes, 3 lower sunk panels. Above, first floor 3-light early C20 lattice glazed window as on W end unit. E end unit, framing plastered, ground floor, C20 boarded garage door. First floor early C19 sash window, moulded architrave, 3x4 panes. No.24 of single window range, ground floor C20 boarded door and 3-light casement window, first floor C19 3-light sliding sash window, now with leaded panes. Rear S elevation: considerable C20 restoration, framing rendered, all features also C20. W-E, gabled unit, ground floor French window with side lights, glazing bars, total 4x4 panes, second gabled unit (as to street) projects, upper floor jettied (features covered). Ground floor, 3-light casement window 3x2 panes, first floor similar, 2-light 2x2 panes, between units, stepped stage with first floor single light casement window, stack in roof valley behind. To E of jettied block, 2 units stepped back, one with outshut having catslide roof and 2-light window 2x2 panes. Second (end) unit boarded door and ground floor 3-light window, glazing bars, 6x3 panes. No.24 now all C20. INTERIOR: W-E, original cross-wing of 2 bays, enlarged by extra bay at rear in C17, original mid C16 front floor joisting, flat laid with step-stopped chamfers, diminished haunched soffit tenons, original site of lower jetty wall clear. Rear binding ceiling joist ovolo moulded with low grade joists to simply carry a plastered C17 ceiling. C20 joist replacement at S end. Stack on E side rebuilt but of C17 origin. Street gabled unit has remnants of open arched bracing on both floors, top floor raised from window sill level. It may have once served as a carriageway to the castle bailey. Rear extended and old weathered framing now within house. Shop unit, ceiling joists of early C17, deep section, also Roman numeral carpenters' marks. First floor, late C16 curved interior tension bracing simply pegged to studs. E end unit ground floor has post-medieval primary bracing of E and W ends. Rear framing heavy and earlier, now obscured by board lining of first floor room. No.24 ground floor, was a carriageway but infilled in C20, first floor also refurbished.

Listing NGR: TL5378438707

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