Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 KING STREET
669-1/1/251 (North side)
28/11/51 Nos.20A AND 22
(Formerly Listed as:
KING STREET
Nos.22 AND 26)

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.20 AND 22 KING STREET.
House and shop. C16, early C18 and C20 shop. Plastered timber
frame and brick with slate roof, long narrow plan with corner
frontage to King Street where the street is reduced in width,
extends back making E side of the alley from adjacent
carriageway (qv). 3 storeys.
E elevation: 3 window range, early C18 red brickwork with
burnt headers, moulded wooden cornice. Windows are flush and
have moulded architraves, good voussoirs with keystones. First
floor windows are of double casements with glazing bars, 2x3
panes. Second floor windows sashes, 3x4 panes. Band between
storeys. Ground floor C20 shop totally of plate glass. S end
elevation: gabled, plastered timber framing. First floor has
C19 pargetted panels with combed decoration. Ground floor,
shop front continued round from E front. At W end, 2-leaved
panelled door to No.20A. W side elevation: long range along
alley of 3 units. Adjacent to carriageway, ground floor brick
with C20 fixed window, above, rendered framing, first floor
C18 window with moulded architrave, now with casement, 2x4
panes, second floor, sash window 3x4 panes. To N, long 3
window range, timber-framed and plastered, second floor
jettied, board between ground and first floor marks position
of lower jetty, now underbuilt. First floor window C18 frames,
sashes, 3x4 panes, second floor C20 top-opening casements.
Rear unit, plain 3 storeyed, rendered block, wall cranks away
from alley with single second floor C20 window. N end
elevation: tall, narrow, 3 storeyed and gabled, in rendered
brick, fire escape stair in front. Ground floor, segment
headed doorway with plain C20 door, adjacent segment headed
window of double sashes, each 3x2 panes, iron grille. First
floor, segment headed combined C20 door and window. Second
floor door with 3x3 paned upper glazing.
INTERIOR: features rebuilt or masked. The jettied middle range
to the carriageway alley has the shape of a large domestic
range typical of medieval inns, as is the carriageway itself.
Nos 20 (qv), 20A, with the carriageway and No.26 (qv) have the
shape of a large medieval inn.

Listing NGR: TL5376838476

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569407

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