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SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CASTLE STREET 669-1/1/60 (South side) 30/04/85 No.18 The Old Rectory Surgery (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE STREET No.18 The Vicarage)

GV II

House, now surgery. 1793, with C20 W side addition. Red brick, composition and peg tiles, red brick stacks. Plan, square, double pile with attached irregular W block, late C18 and C20 L plan addition. 2 storeys and cellar. Front S elevation: principal 3-bay range, dentilled eaves, all windows and doorways have segmented arched heads, hipped roof, ground floor flat roofed extension almost full length with cement cornice and parapet, central outer doorway, doors 2-leaf, fully glazed 4x4 panes. Large tripartite sash window each side, 1x4, 3x4, 1x4 panes. First floor, outer sash windows tripartite, 2x4, 3x4, 2x4 panes, central 4x4 sash. Voussoirs still retain tuck pointing. 2 stacks at side roof ridges. To W, C20 ground floor addition in house style, red brick, peg-tiled, 3 bay range with hipped roof at W end, central bay gabled. 3 similar windows, glazing bars, 4x4 panes. Rear N elevation: 3 bays, dentilled eaves, windows smaller than front, somewhat irregular, ground floor doorway has projecting C19 trellis work, porch flat roofed, bracketed hood, arched side openings, small C19 casement window 2x3 panes, window W of porch and 3 on first floor, C20 replacement 2-light casement 4x3 panes, also small late C18 similar, 3x2 paned window. Cellar grille W of porch. To W, blank wall of C19 ground floor unit with C20 addition set deeply behind to W. Window in house style 4x3 panes. W end elevation: first floor tripartite window, 1x4, 3x4, 1x4 panes, smaller window 3x3 panes. Ground floor irregular, late C18 N and C20 S wings both with 4x4 paned sash window between set back, simple C20 6 panelled door. E end elevation: 3 window range in house style, middle window off-centre to N. Both floors have outer 4x4 paned windows and central original tripartite one 1x4,3x4,1x4 panes with some uneven old glass. 2 stone wall plaques with Latin inscriptions, one dated 1793 records rebuilding of house, other in similar style 1963 records conversion to doctors' surgery. INTERIOR: inner doorway has fielded panelled reveals, late C18 6 panelled door, upper panels glazed. Within house, fielded 6 panel doors and contemporary central dogleg staircase, simple stick balusters, mahogany handrail. Circular roof-light to first floor landing. Details of demolition and costing of 1790's work in carpenter's account at Audley End estate. (Williams JD: Restoration of Audley End: 57).

Listing NGR: TL5372438673

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