Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 HIGH STREET
669-1/1/185 (East side)
01/11/72 No.14

GV II

Shop and offices. Early C19. Yellow gault brick with hipped
slate roof. 2 storeys with attic and cellars. High Street
frontage has projecting vertical panel of brickwork with a 12
paned double-hung sash window with stuccoed head on each
floor. Beneath these is a cellar light with similar head and
iron grille. Towards the S is a similar window on the first
floor. The corner to Church Street is quadrant curved with a
grand contemporary shopfront with 5 attached fluted columns
with Corinthianesque capitals of vertical palm leaves and
naturalistic flowers. The fascia over is in the form of an
entablature with egg-and-dart moulding under cornice. The
columns frame a 3-light display window to each frontage, a
corner entrance door and a door from Church Street. The corner
entrance has cement steps, panelled reveals and soffit and
rectangular margin glazed fanlight over. The Church Street
entrance is similar but narrower. Over the corner entrance is
a pair of large paned French windows with cast-iron balcony
framed by similar but smaller Corinthianesque columns,
entablature and panelled flanks and soffit. Church Street
frontage is broader and similar to that of the High Street but
with old metal street name plate on first floor. To the rear
(E), is a lean-to extension of painted brick with 12 paned
double-hung sash window on first floor over a simple entrance
door with stuccoed head. The rear yard facing wall has a
corner window of overlapping panes of glass. On the E part of
the roof are 2 chimney stacks of gault brick, one with 2 and
one with 3 octagonal shafts.
INTERIOR: the well staircase has reeded newel post and
wreathed handrail of softwood and skylight over to attic,
which has replaced rooflight on ridge. The first floor retains
several 4-panelled doors with moulded architraves. Large
cellar lined with flint and brick dressings.

Listing NGR: TL5368238526

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490727

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)