Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 MUSEUM STREET 669-1/1/299 (East side) 28/11/51 Nos.3 AND 5 Conservative Club (Formerly Listed as: MUSEUM STREET Nos.3 AND 5 Conservative Association Office and Club)

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.1, 3 AND 5 Conservative Club MUSEUM STREET. Offices and club, comprising central C18 house with brick, timber-framed units each side reworked in C20. Large rear C20 single storey meeting room. Brick, and plastered timber framing, peg tile and slate roofs, red brick stacks. T shaped plan of triple street range and rear C20 addition. 2 storeys, attics and cellar. Front, SW elevation: central unit orange/red brick, ruddled mortar with white tuck pointing, 3 window range, central doorway with flat cornice hood, stucco surround, recessed panelled doorcase, overlight and 6 panelled door. Above, first floor, 3x4 paned sash window with good brick voussoirs. Either side, canted bay windows through 2 storeys to articulated modillioned cornice, plain parapet above. Bay windows, sashes, ground floor 2x4, 3x4, 2x4 panes, first floor C20 restored and similar but with panelled wooden `frieze' over windows. Steps to front door with cellar grille to N. To N, unit of stuccoed brickwork with remnants of ashlar lining with slated, hipped roof, obscured from street by prominent C20 fascia boarding, stack at SE end abutting stack of central unit. Ground floor C20 6 panelled door in simple doorway and sash window 4x4 panes. First floor, central C20 2-light casement 4x4 panes. To S of central house, timber-framed and rendered unit, all features C20, hipped slated gambrel roof with 2 single casement dormer windows. First floor, large 3-light plain casement window. Ground floor, mock bow shopfront window with adjacent 6 fielded panelled door with overlight. Cellar grille. Rear NE elevation: central unit rendered, (probably timber-framed) 2 large C20 casement window. N stack partly exterior with adjacent fully glazed C20 door. Ground floor obscured by flat roofed meeting hall with French window. Wings have slated roofs and a variety of C20 casement window and doors. N end elevation: red brick walling extended back for 2 storey integral lean-to, roof hip peg-tiled. Ground floor, 2 small C20 casement windows and one blocked original window. First floor, segment headed sliding sash window 4x4 panes. Attic C20 2-light casement window.

Listing NGR: TL5382038627

External Links

• Wikidata Q26585291

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)