Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 HIGH STREET 669-1/1/225 (West side) 01/11/72 Abbey House and 2 rear ranges of former outbuildings (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET Abbey House)

GV II

Formerly known as: The Abbey Hotel HIGH STREET. Offices and shops. Early C19. Main block of red/brown Flemish bond brickwork, now rendered on main elevations. Gambrel plain tile roof. 2 storeys with attics and former cellar. Front elevation to High Street has parapeted abuttment to N and gable end stack. 4 flat-roofed dormers, rebuilt behind parapet. Main block has quadrant corner to Abbey Lane. Painted timber cornice with paired modillions. First floor has canted oriel bay window with small paned double-hung sash window, panelled frieze and main cornice carries round its head. One flush 12-paned double-hung sash. Ground floor has 2 C20 hardwood small-paned display windows and doorcase with panelled pilasters, moulded flat hood and fanlight. This is rectangular with glazing bars forming semi-circle and radiating outer pattern. The curving corner of Abbey lane has one curved tripartite small paned double-hung sash window on first floor. Ground floor has a smaller C20 small paned hardwood display window. The flank to Abbey Lane has one small first floor window over a 2-light casement and further C20 small paned display window. Range of 2 storey outbuildings to rear, fronting Abbey Lane is of red Flemish-bond brickwork with gabled plain tile roof. First floor has C19 casement and 2 raised slate lean-to roofed dormers. Ground floor is rendered with 3 recessed C20 shopfronts. Rear of this range has 2 full-height brick buttresses. 2 storey timber-framed and rendered range to the rear of the N end of front range has plain tile gabled roof and ridge line stack. On its first floor, facing in to the old inn courtyard, it has two 16-paned and one 12-paned double-hung sash windows. To the rear of this (to the W) is a 2-storey former stable range of random flintwork with brick dressings and gabled plain tile roof. This has C20 small pane double-hung sashes, door to bridge link on first floor, 2 similar windows and 2 C19 2-light casements on ground floor. To the rear of this is a 2 storey gabled plain tile roofed outbuilding, timber-framed but with red brick W gable end. This is of 3 bays and has 3 small-paned full-width casement windows on first floor over 3 panels of rusticated weatherboarding. The ground floor has segmental moulded arches either side of a wider central similar arch, on Doric pilasters, now with infill walling and C20 windows and doors. The rear of the main High Street range has a lean-to extension forming a catslide with main roof, partly of slate and with wide 33 paned horizontally sliding sash window. Single storey slated extension to ground floor and flat roofed C20 extension. Flat roofed dormer in rear roof slope and stack through roof of Abbey Lane return block. Ground floor room of main range (now shop) has 2 fluted columns against side walls with palm leaf capitals framing former apsidal end, marked by reeded cornice on present ceiling. Straight flight staircase with column newels.

Listing NGR: TL5371438388

External Links

• Wikidata Q26585315

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)