Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CASTLE STREET 669-1/1/77 (South side) 01/11/72 Nos.54 AND 54A

GV II

2 houses, linked units. C18 with C17 core, C19 additions, C20 refenestration and minor addition. Timber-framed, plastered and brick, peg-tiled roofs red brick stacks. Plan irregular rectangle of 2 early units at right angles with 2 deep lean-tos filling internal angle, also minor outer lean-to on W side. 2 storeys, attic and cellar. Front, N elevation: red brick, some burnt headers, dentilled eaves, gambrel roof, half hipped at W end, external stack seen at E end gable. 4 bays, doorway has moulded frame, simple cornice hood, C20 6-panel door upper glazing. All windows early C20 casements with metal frames. W of door, one 3-light, one 2-light, to E, one of 2 lights. First floor, three 2-light windows over those below, blocked window aperture over door. W end elevation: street range with butted rear wing to S. Large stack between with minor roof link, shallow 2-storey lean-to on front from street range, second stack central to wing. Wing has half length slated lean-to continued to full length as C20 conservatory with door. Ground floor, C20 3-light casement window 6x3 panes. First floor two 3x4 paned C20 sash windows with horns, also 2x3 paned casement window. Street range end wall, first floor, 2-light casement window and single-light casement in minor lean-to. E end elevation: street range and wing clear, cellar trap adjacent to external stack on blank end wall of street range. 2 deep lean-tos, to N, single storey with compositiion tiles, two 3-light metal casement windows and single-light casement. Minor lean-to roof over from street range has small 3-light casement window. S lean-to C19, 2 storeys, brick, corrugated asbestos roof, ground floor segment-headed window now with C20 2-light casement, simple boarded door, first floor, two 3-light casement windows. Roof of block continues to S as part of large garage complex. INTERIOR: No.54. Chamfered central axial joists show C17 3 celled division of house. Rear block also of timber framing. The close conjunction of the 2 houses, now linked, may represent C17 `unit system' of building, 2 closely associated complete houses each having closely related families. The building was once the Red Lion Inn.

Listing NGR: TL5388038752

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