Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 MUSEUM YARD
669-1/1/307 No.3
01/11/72 and attached wall
(Formerly Listed as:
MUSEUM YARD
No.3)

GV II

House. c1800. Timber-framed and plastered, flint and brick,
slate roof, red and gault brick stacks. 2 storeys and cellar.
Front W elevation: original plaster with ashlar lining. 2
window range. All windows have moulded architraves and sliding
sashes 4x4 panes. Central front doorway, C20 door of 4 panels,
upper 2 glazed, 2 cellar grilles to lower windows. Rear E
elevation: red brick, partly obscured as house backs on to
earthen bailey bank of Saffron Walden Castle (qv). Large
exterior red and gault brick stack to N. First floor, small
C19 casement window. S end elevation: flint cobble walling
with red brick bands, roof gable triangle timber-framed and
plastered. N end elevation: similar and with gault brick
exterior stack. Wall to Museum Yard, attached to SW corner of
house. Flint cobble and red brick dressings, semicircular
brick coping. Runs SW for approx 19m, turns N approx 10.5m to
meet No.11 Museum Street (qv). Broken by 2 gateways to Museum
Street.

Listing NGR: TL5379138680

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490767

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  For the Record
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)