Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL53NE WALDEN ROAD, Sewards End
669-1/4/392 (South side)
01/11/72 No.32
The Tower

II

Large house. Mid C19 with some C20 refurbishment. Red brick,
leaded roofs, square plan with clasping corner turrets. 2
storey and basement supporting `piano nobile'. Front N
elevation: symmetrical composition, 3 window range plus single
range end turrets. Windows segment headed, principally sashes,
3x4 panes. Middle and upper brick bands, upper dentilled with
castellated parapet and recessed panels over windows below.
Turrets rise above central block to 3 storeys. Windows narrow
segment headed sashes 2x4 panes. Ogival leaded cupolas to
turrets. Doorway central in projecting castellated porch with
diagonal buttresses approached by steps, door boarded and
battened. To E end, 2-storeyed service block, ramped
castellated parapet, boarded door with light approached by
steps with adjacent casement window. Rear S and W side
elevations similar to front. No doorways, basement windows
top-hung casements 5x3 panes. S elevation has S end of service
block on E side with C20 fully glazed door and side lights, in
all 6x5 panes under segment head. E side elevation. Similar to
rest but has service addition to 3 central bays with
castellated parapet and low pitch leaded roof. Windows segment
headed 5 to ground floor, 3 to first. Irregular spacing,
sashes and casements with glazing bars. Large central
rectangular stack rises over house with tall narrow stack in
line over roof of service block. Upper windows to turrets
round, fixed, with radial glazing bars.
INTERIOR seen to have detail of the same style.

Listing NGR: TL5712937971

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585265

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy