Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 HIGH STREET
669-1/1/220 (West side)
28/11/51 Nos.77 AND 77A
and walls
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
Nos.77 AND 77A)

GV II

Formerly known as: No.77 HIGH STREET.
House. Late medieval and mid C19. Timber-framed and rendered
but with flanks and rear of mid C19 red/brown Flemish bond
brickwork. Roofs are of plain tiles. 2 storeys with cellar.
Plan formed with 2 unarticulated cross-wings, that to S
extended to rear in C19. The cross-wing gables to the front
have curious shaped barge-boards and are relatively low
pitched. The first floor has four 3-light casements mostly C19
and of varied design, but all with leaded lights. Ground floor
has 2 canted, painted brick, bay windows with small-paned
double-hung sashes. Between these is a doorcase with convex
moulded architrave, cornice over and 6 panel door. Door is
framed by narrow glazed sidelights. 6 stone steps with
wrought-iron handrails. The N wing has, on ground floor, a C19
mullioned and transomed 3-light casement. The S flank has full
stack and windows of small-paned casements and double-hung
sashes. The N flank has stack with 2 short diagonal shafts of
C19. The S wing projects to the rear with a 2 diagonal shafted
stack at gable end. Rear elevation, red/brown brick with tall
rebuilt stack of 3 diagonal shafts and casement windows and
blind panels with narrow projecting brick frames. To rear of
projecting S wing is a single-storey slate roofed extension
and behind N wing, a C20 conservatory.
INTERIOR centre of block has moulded spine beam and bridging
joist with broad chamfer stops, representing former hall. On
the first floor, this area has 2 chamfered bridging joists to
former floored attic. N wing has jowled posts, exposed on
first floor, of wide cross-wing, probably C16 and with
splayed, halved and bridled scarf joint in top plate. Ground
floor of this wing has lowered floor level and access is
gained by short early C19 curved staircase with turned
balusters, wreathed hardwood handrail and shaped tread ends.
Large stack in rear wall of former hall is probably C17 with
old leaded light casement with iron frame lighting rear
corridor on first floor. Cellar with walls of rubble and
brick. Part of frontage to High Street has high, red brick
boundary wall, curving round to SW where there is a garden
gate. N and E boundaries have high flint and brick walls,
partly rebuilt at house end of N wall and with yard entrance
at its W end.

Listing NGR: TL5376738173

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569477

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)