Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 MARKET PLACE
669-1/1/286 (West side)
27/02/69 Library, former Corn Exchange
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
Corn Exchange)

GV II

Corn exchange now public library. c1847, rebuilt internally in
C20 as library. Said to be by R Tress. Rendered brickwork with
banded ashlar lining, slate roof now of broad mansard form
behind original balustraded parapet. Classical style.
Rectangular plan. Single storey. E front elevation: central
elaborate portico with symmetrical bay each side as a panel
closed by paired pilasters and a side doorway with open
pediment, consoles and acroteria, semicircular overlight,
doors have 2 lower fielded panels and one upper, now glazed.
Central portico comprises a round headed doorway with paired
columns set forward each side with entablature similarly
breaking forward and decorated with paired wreaths. Parapet
over has paired acroteria. Clock tower rises above on plinth
with volute scrolled diagonal buttresses with acroteria
clasping a louvred, triple-arcaded opening, each round arch
head decorated with a scallop shell. Above, clock face with
diagonal consoles, and surmounting, reeded cylindrical stage
having cornice, dome and weather-vane. The doorway has a
cast-iron cresting set within the arched head, central scrolls
with lyre shape. S end of elevation curved round with arched
rustication to S elevation to King Street: 9 bays with
dividing pilasters, each decorated by a panel and linked
cornucopia on the frieze, tall window to each bay with raised
architrave having fleur-de-lys cresting. C20 roof has 5 ramped
dormer lights with all round glazing.
INTERIOR rebuilt with only C20 work now visible.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Ratcliffe E: Essex:
London: 1965-: 334).

Listing NGR: TL5384238515

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Saffron Walden Corn Exchange at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26585288

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Recommended Books

• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings