Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CASTLE STREET 669-1/1/65 (South side) 01/11/72 Nos.30, 32 AND 34

GV II

3 houses. C18 with C19 refronting and addition. C20 refurbishment. Timber-framed and plastered, red brick and rendered brick, peg-tiled roofs. Plan F shaped of principal range and 2 rear additions. 2 storeys, cellar and attics. Front N elevation: No.30, timber-framed and plastered, No.32 brick fronted, No.34 similar but now rendered with brush decoration. W-E, No.30, C19 doorway, flat hood, pulvinated jambs, door of 4 flush panels, early C19 window with moulded architrave, sashes with glazing bars. 4x4 panes, grating to cellar below. High C19 carriageway doors now blocked behind, 2-leaves with further upper shorter doors openable for high loads. First floor, second C19 sash window above one below, C20 3-light casement window, glazing bars, 6x3 panes over carriageway. No.32, brickwork has scored pointing, door and windows have cement rendered voussoirs, C19 door of 4 flush panels, single ground and first floor C19 windows with full depth reveals, sashes with glazing bars, 4x4 panes, slated raking dormer window with raking side weatherboarding, 2-light casement 2x2 panes. No.34, C20 details, door of 6 fielded panels, ground and first floor replacement sash window, 4x4 panes. Rear, S elevation: mainly C20 fenestration. No.30 slated, ground floor C19 lean-to with C20 weatherboarding (boarding continues across rear). Lean-to has C19 2-light sliding sash and C20 door with upper glazing 2x3 panes, house rear, similar door and 2-light casement window 4x4 panes. First floor, two 2-light casement window, dormer window, flat roofed with 3-light casement. No.32 full width lean-to, slated, plain door with upper light and 3-light casement window. First floor 2 single-light casement windows, raking 2-light dormer window. No.34. Ground floor, plain door and 2-light casement window, first floor, 2 single-light window. E end elevation: gable weatherboarded with 3-light casement window. INTERIOR: No.30 C18 slender framing and joisting, primary bracing, carriageway now converted to rooms. Party wall to No.32 of brick. C18 stack remains intact. Cellar has E and W arched recesses said to be remnant of water course (cellar is on site of castle ditch).

Listing NGR: TL5380338730

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