Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 GOLD STREET 669-1/1/167 (West side) 28/11/51 Nos.34, 36 AND 38

GV II

Terraced row of houses. Early C16, with C18 additions and refenestration, C20 restoration. Timber-framed, partly exposed and plastered. Plan, long rectangle of street range with irregular rear projections. 2 storeys and cellars. Front E elevation: long jetty range, first floor framing exposed, 4 bays, close studding with tension brace at S end. Principal jetty joists and support brackets. Large rectangular stack at S end in red brick partly rendered. First floor, 4 windows, S-N, 2x2 paned casement, two 2-light sliding sash windows 4x3 panes, C20 3-light casement window with leaded glazing build round early C16 oriel with moulded projecting sill. Ground floor, S-N, single-light casement window, sash window with glazing bars, 4x4 panes, C20 fully-glazed door 3x5 panes set under original C16 4-centred arched door head, hollow chamfered and with flower and leaf decorated spandrels, C19 4-panelled door and 4x3 paned sliding sash window together under C16 rectangular framed and moulded twin shop window frames. Cellar opening below with top-hung wooden boarded door, C20 2x2 paned casement window with blocked cellar opening below now with air vent. Rear, W elevation: has gabled additions renovated in C20. INTERIOR: not inspected but plan in Stenning DF Fig.19, p.38 of C16 layout shows doorway with decorated head leading to cross passage with rear service and stair doorway. Shop to N with service rooms behind, hall to S of cross passage with internal fireplace at S end and adjacent parlour doorway opening. N end door led to an original through way to rear, the N bay being, originally, a separate unit from the rest. (Vernacular Architecture: Stenning DF: Timber Framed Shops, 1300-1600: Comparative Plans:16: 1985-: 38).

Listing NGR: TL5383438277

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)