Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CHURCH STREET 669-1/1/108 (South side) 28/11/51 No.23 Cromwell House

GV II*

House, formerly a shop. C16 with C17 rear addition, C19 refronting, rear C20 refurbishment. Timber-framed and plastered, peg-tiled and slate roof, red brick stacks. Plan L shaped. 2 storeys, attics and cellars. Front N elevation: 3 window range plus 2 doorways alternating with windows, at E end C19 frontage rebuilt and raised over previous jettied run that partly remains in block form at E end. Roof pitch cranked through raising, front slate. Traces of ashlar lining on plasterwork. Ground floor, E-W, C19 doorway with moulded architrave, door 6 panels, upper 4 glazed, C19 shop window, bracketed sill, moulded architrave, 3 casement lights, glazing bars, 3x4 panes, jetty over, bracket at E end. Slight building break in jetty with bracket, doorway with 6 panel door, flush front with 2 C19 window, bracketed sills, wide moulded architrave, horned sashes with side margin lights. First floor, E-W, window (over shop) moulded architrave, sash with thin glazing bars, 4x4 panes. 2 windows with margin glazing similar to those below. Stack through roof pitch at W end. Rear S elevation: street range has slate roofed wing to S at W end with own stack. Lower wing peg-tiled, added at S end with ground floor peg-tiled lean-to on E side. Street range of 3 bays with red brick lateral stack at E end. Ground floor, 2 C20 fully glazed doors with glazing bars, C20 2-light casement between with similar glazing, 4x3 panes. First floor, C20 double `cross' casement window, 2-light metal casement 4x3 panes, C19 cast-iron casement window with `Gothick' arched glazing bars 3x4 panes. Rear wing features include ground floor fully glazed C20 door with overlight and side lights, second stable door and adjacent 2-light casement window 4x3 panes, 3x4 paned `Gothick' window similar to one in street range. First floor, C20 sash window 4x5 panes, two 2-light casement window 4x3 panes. E end elevation abuts carriageway of No.25 (qv). INTERIOR: framing of late C15 long jettied house partly exposed, jowled posts, halved and bridled wall plate scarf. Central entrance doorway leads to undershot cross-passage with both buttery and pantry doorways evident in E room, both having 4-centred heads with hollow chamfer mouldings, also wattle groove and stud mortice evidence of division of service roooms. Mortice evidence of former spere screens on W side of cross-passage towards ground floor hall. Above, framing of chamber exposed with blocked Cl6 tripartite frieze window to street and end frame against carriageway of No.25 (qv) as open arched braced truss suggesting build of No.23 later than No.25. Ceiling of chamber with attic above inserted c1600 with lamb's tongue stop chamfered bridging joist. Above, simple crown post roof continuing into W bay. Cellar below service rooms, large, flint cobble and brick, of various periods. E wall has flat 4-centred arched recess and triangular headed candle niche in late medieval brickwork.

Listing NGR: TL5378838566

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