Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 HIGH STREET
669-1/1/210 (West side)
28/11/51 Nos.65, 65A AND 65B
and outbuilding and garden walls to
rear
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
No.65)

GV II

Former house, now shop and flats. Mid C16, C18 and early C19.
Timber-framed, rendered and stuccoed with plain tile roofs.
Front range of 3 storeys with basement and 2 storey rear
range. Of `L' plan form with hipped roofs reducing to rear and
with lower hipped roof forming central range.
Front has stuccoed parapet with 5 recessed panels and moulded
cornices. Second floor has two 9-paned double-hung sash
windows either side of a central similar window with eared
architrave and triple keystone. The first floor has canted
bays with parapets having recessed panels, moulded cornice and
double hung sash windows with vertical glazing bars either
side of a similar window. This has a shouldered and eared
architrave, pediment, triple keystone and sill on consoles.
C20 shop front of hardwood with large pane window and fluted
pilasters.
Rear of the main range has high parapet, rendered and moulded
cornice. Windows are a mixture of C20 double hung sashes and
paired and single 12 paned double-hung sashes. 2 storey
extension with low pitched lean-to roof. Semicircular arched
opening frames porch to old rear door which has margin glazing
with some coloured glass, moulded architrave enclosing
rectangular margin glazed fan light. 2 tall stacks on back
wall, one of gault brick. 2 storey rear range, at right angles
to frontage with half hipped plain tile roof. This is rendered
on first floor with one 3-light leaded casement and two
6-paned double-hung sashes on N flank. Below this is a 6
raised and fielded panelled front door and wide car port with
lean-to pentise roof. The W end first floor is now glazed with
small pane French windows and balcony on painted timber posts.
WALLS: tall red brick walls enclose garden and intermediate
cross wall has elliptical arched opening with wrought-iron
gate.
INTERIOR of main range is now substantially early C19 with
well staircase having columns over vase balusters and acorn
finialled newels. At first floor level is a semicircular
landing arch with moulded capitals on square pilasters. The
rear range is the truncated remains of a mid Cl6 timber-framed
building, now of 3 bays, but formerly of 5. This has one large
chamber on the first floor, jowled posts, internal wall
bracing and one 4-light diamond mullioned window. The
crown-post roof is single jowled with single down braces to
tie-beams and large tie-beam arch braces. On the ground floor,
the structure has largely been replaced by brick with one
moulded brick, probably half and arch from a corbel table
embedded in the wall. This structure was probably a commercial
building.

Listing NGR: TL5374038295

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585313

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)