Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 MARKET HILL 669-1/1/270 (West side) 01/11/72 Nos.1, 3A AND 3B (Formerly Listed as: MARKET HILL Nos.1 AND 3A)

GV II

Shops with offices. Early C17 with early C19 rebuilding of frontage. Timber-framed and plastered, stuccoed brick, slate and clay tiled roof, red brick stacks. Plan of curved T. 2 storeys. Front E elevation: long cranked frontage, 6 bays, S end terminates in quadrant to Library in Market Place (qv), eaves have paired modillions, stucco cornice with paired consoles between storeys with lower pilasters. Ground floor, 2 C19 shop fronts, now refurbished in C20 with plate glass. No.1 doorway retains overlight. First floor, N-S, 2 C19 plain sash windows, 4 sash windows with glazing bars, 3x4 panes. Stack at N end and behind ridge towards S. Rear W elevation: timber-framed and plastered, cross gabled wing to W with single storey timber-framed and red brick, slated ground floor W extension. C20 single storeyed red brick rear slated shop extension in angle of C17 wing and street range. Also, N end 2-storey brick lean-to. C17 wing, S gable C19 shaped barge-boards and first floor sash window with moulded architrave,glazing bars, 4x4 panes. Window in similar position on N and W gables, sash, 3x4 panes and sliding sash 4x3 panes respectively. Fan pargetting on N side of C17 wing and W addition. Addition also has 2-leaf carriageway door and adjacent window of 2 lights. Passageway now cut through junction of units with 3 adjacent ground floor C20 single light casement windows in C17 unit. N end lean-to. N side, first floor C19 round headed fixed window with stained and ground glass margin glazing, below, 5 panel C19 door, upper panels glazed. W side, first floor 2-light sliding sash window 4x3 panes. INTERIOR: ground floor of No.3A, early C19 triple sash bay window set below rear gable with shaped barge-boards, all originally exterior.

Listing NGR: TL5384238525

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• Wikidata Q26501671

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