Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 KING STREET
669-1/1/247 (South side)
28/11/51 No.13

GV II

Includes: No.4 MERCERS ROW.
Shop. Principal range C15, wing C16, early C19 shop front,
partly restored, C20 refurbishing at rear. Timber-framed,
plastered, brick at rear, peg-tiled roof. 2 storey and attic.
L shaped plan.
Front N elevation: 2 window range, first floor sashes with
moulded architraves, glazing bars, 3x4 panes, lead roofed
segment headed dormers above with early C19 sliding sashes 4x3
panes. Deep roof eaves on C19 shaped brackets. Ground floor
early C19 shop front across full width, central doorway with
shallow bay windows with curved ends, thin glazing bars, and
roll moulded sills, each 8x4 panes. W window restored in C20.
Wooden framing of grooves and pulvinated pilasters, acanthus
consoles. Fascia and cornice with inner delicate leaf and dart
moulding. Lower window bays of brick, colourwashed with
segment headed recesses. Door early C19 with upper glazing,
glazing bars, 3x3 panes and lower moulded fielded panel.
Rear S elevation to Mercers Row: L shaped plan evident with
timber-framed gabled wing at W end having original projecting
horns but C20 barge-boards. C20 rendering and 3 first floor
C20 casement windows. To W, lean-to stair block. To E, roof of
principal range peg-tiled with C20 weatherboarded first floor
full length addition. C20 central 3-light casement window with
glazing bars, 6x3 panes. Ground floor, deep clay tiled
lean-to, rendered brick wall, fixed shop window with glazing
bars, 7x3 panes. Similar lean-to, but slated, to projecting W
wing with shop window 6x3 panes partly obscuring stair block.
Internal angle between wing and principal range has C20
doorway in rudimentary classical style, pediment straight on
jambs, (no entablature) mouldings copied from King Street
door. C20 door has upper glazing, 3x3 panes, lower moulded
panel.
INTERIOR: ground floor, late C15 timber frame of 2 bays,
parallel and, once, jettied to street with heavy flat laid
joists with soffit tenons. E bay rear wall has evidence for
3-light mullioned window with shutter groove. W bay has
original stair trap and second inserted trap (near site of
present stair). Rear additional wing to W bay has later C16,
diminished haunched housed soffit tenons. First floor framing
repeats ground floor evidence with exposed principal framing
with jowled posts. Rear of W bay of early range has weathering
and shutter groove for window showing that the wing was added.
Both ranges now have side purlin roofs, later wing in oak,
purlins trapped by collars.

Listing NGR: TL5382138476

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501569

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