Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 KING STREET
669-1/1/255 (North side)
07/11/75 No.34

GV II

House and shop. C16, c1840 heightening and rear addition.
Timber framing plastered and gault brick, slate, peg and pan
tiled roofs. Plan rectangular. 3 storeys and cellars. Front S
elevation: brick, deep eaves with moulded soffit board, 2
window range, C19 double fronted wooden shop windows of
projecting bays under corniced fascia board, each window now
of 3 lights with mullion bars, segment headed cellar vents
below. Door C19, upper 2 panels glazed, lower bead moulded
boarding. First and second floor windows horned sashes with
glazing bars, 3x2 panes. Rear N elevation: deep peg-tiled
catslide roof of street range and C19 out-shut with short flat
rooofed extension. Out-shut in brick and flint cobble but W
end raised with pantiled roof of lesser pitch, brick walling
with rough cast. C20 plain door with upper glazing, 2x3 panes,
double casement window with glazing bars, 4x3 panes, 2 smaller
metal casement windows 2x2 panes. E end elevation: C20 blank
red brick wall.
INTERIOR: ground and first floor timber framing partly
exposed, jowled posts and wall plate between first and second
floor windows. Shop ceiling has boxed bridging and binding
joists for 2 bays, jettied to rear with exposed central jetty
bracket. Doorway frame visible on first floor through E end.

Listing NGR: TL5374038458

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501605

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