Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL53NE WALDEN ROAD, Sewards End
669-1/4/396 (East side)
01/11/72 Nos.46 AND 48
Chapel Cottage (46) and Swans
Cottage (48)
(Formerly Listed as:
WALDEN ROAD, Sewards End
Nos.46 AND 48)

II

Pair of semi-detached cottages. Late C18 or early C19.
Timber-framed and rendered with thatched gabled roof. One
storey with attics and central ridge stack and each cottage
has C20 gambrel plain tiled roofed extensions on its flank.
No.46 has one eye-brow dormer window with C19 2-light casement
with single horizontal glazing bar. Ground floor has a similar
window and catslide thatched roofed porch. No.46 has 2 eyebrow
dormers each with a C20 2-light casement. Ground floor has a
similar window and larger catslide porch. Pair of similar
cottages with inglenooks and oven door opening. Chamfered
spine beams and partitions with curved bracing interrupting
studs (exposed with infill removed in No.48). Short principal
rafters linked by collars with superimposed purlins and short
jack rafters above.

Listing NGR: TL5707838280

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585267

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings