Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 MARKET PLACE 669-1/1/282 (East side) 28/11/51 No.9 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE No.6 House adjoining No.6 on the north)

GV II

Includes: No.10 EMSON CLOSE. Offices and shop, contiguous with No.10 Emson Close. Late C16 and early C17 with some C19 refenestration and rear addition, C20 refurbishment. Timber-framed and plastered, peg-tiled roof. L shaped plan. 2 storeys and cellar. Front W elevation: refurbished in C20 with panel fan combed pargetting, door and windows C20. 2 window range, central doorway with cornice hood, plain jambs, door, lower panels and upper 2x3 glazing, adjacent bowed shop window on central bracket, to N, plain fixed casement. First floor windows sashes, flush framed, 3x2 panes. N elevation to Emson Close, refurbished in C20, similar to front, gable of street range has long rear range with projecting gabled stair tower and large projecting early C17 shouldered red brick stack with rebuilt C18 and C19 upper stages. Also, shallow stepped lean-to addition to W gable to ground and first floor. Ground floor, plain doorway with glazed metal door, one 3-light casement window with glazing bars, 6x3 panes and fixed casement 2x3 panes. First floor C19 sliding sash window 6x2 panes and C19 3x3 paned sash window. Stair tower has upper C19 sliding sash window 2x2 panes and lower fixed paned window. At E end, ground floor felt roofed lean-to with fully glazed door and overlight, adjacent mid-hung casement window 4x3 panes. End red brick garden wall has short slated inner lean-to, wall curves round to S elevation. E end elevation: gable end of C17 wing jettied to S, ground floor obscured by curved wall shaped up at N end, low C20 2-light casment window. First floor, early C20 3-light casement window with leaded glazing. Wall plates and roof side purlins project. S elevation: 2-bayed long jettied range, refurbished as rest but principal bracketed joists exposed, common joists have covering C19 fascia board. Ground floor long C19 sliding sash window with glazing bars, 6x3 panes. First floor C19 casement windows, one 3-light, one 2-light. INTERIOR: framing of both units partly exposed. W earlier range 2 bays originally jettied to street, principal binding joist has lamb's tongue chamfered stop. Rear E wing also 2 bays, studding has internal nailed tension bracing at E end and also blank apertures for original frieze window on E and S walls. Halved and bridled scarf joint in wall plate. Ground floor room has early C17 style paired bridging joists with lamb's tongue chamfer stops. Stack on N side, ground floor fireplace, jambs and timber lintel rebuilt in C20 but herringbone brickwork at back original. First floor fireplace has moulded brick surround with roll and hollow chamfers, flattened depressed arched head. The house is typical of late/post medieval expansion of a property on a town site. Earlier range parallel to street, probably with shop, chamber over. Expansion in fashionable style to the rear of the plot with display window, stair tower and large stack heating 2 floors with fireplace to the upper chamber.

Listing NGR: TL5389538556

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