Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL53NE WALDEN ROAD, Sewards End
669-1/4/387 (South side)
28/11/51 No.12
Campions

GV II

House. Late medieval. Timber-framed and rendered and part red
brick with gabled plain tile roofs. 2 storeys and complex
plan. NW corner comprises cross-wing and former hall. W face
of cross-wing is hipped with gabled roof and tall
wall-flanking stack. Hall part has lean-to, peg-tiled roof and
large dormer with 2 separate 3-light oak casements. Ground
floor has 2 similar windows. C17 end stack with crow-stepped
profile and flanking brick extensions, one with hipped roof.
Rear of hall has a number of old leaded casements. Cross-wing
was extended to E in C17 to form additional baffle-entry,
2-storey house with central ridge stack with canted strip
decoration. To the S of this, is a 2-storey early C20
extension in render with half hipped plain tile roof and 2
flat roofed dormers on E flank. According to the RCHM there
are good late C16 wall paintings including inscriptions, part
of which are now in Saffron Walden Museum.

Listing NGR: TL5676538089

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585300

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)