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

• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)