Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CASTLE STREET
669-1/1/81 (North side)
28/11/51 No.59
(Formerly Listed as:
CASTLE STREET
No.57)
(Formerly Listed as:
CASTLE STREET
No.59)

GV II

Previously listed as 2 houses, now combined into one.
House. C16, C17, c1800 and C20 restoration and additions.
Timber-framed and plastered with peg-tiled roof. Plan
rectangular, of old street range with c1800 rear 2-storeyed
addition and further C20 rear additions single and 2 storeys.
2 storeys and cellar.
Front S elevation: in 2 units, jettied to E with end jetty
brackets, plain to W with eaves coving. Break of builds clear
at roof and down frontage. 3 window range. Ground floor, 2 C18
sash windows, moulded architraves, glazing bars, one now 3x2
paned horned sash, one 4x4 panes. Between them, doorway with
moulded architrave, door of 4 panels (entry now blocked
inside). First floor, 3 windows with moulded architraves, two
4x3 panes and one (W) similar but with horned sashes 2x2
panes. Roof hipped at W end. Jetty at E end has C17
decoration, bressumer dentilled, joist ends ovolo moulded, 3
small consoles and a moulded shell immediately above under
eaves. Decorative plaque dated 1630. Frontage now with C20
roughcast but clear traces of panel pargetting showing
through. W end elevation: eaves cove continuing round from
front across whole elevation, 2-storeyed rear addition.
Internal porch with C20 ogee head, C20 6-panel door within,
cellar light grille adjacent, also, small first floor fixed
pane window. C18 stack through roof pitch towards rear. To N,
wall to side alleyway of cobble and brick, now part of
structure with boarded door and lean-to conservatory roof
above. Rear, N elevation: complex, comprising C20 conservatory
and adjacent kitchen with balcony above leading from
projecting rectangular room clad in imitation weatherboarding.
Whole group has large single sheet glass windows and fully
glazed doors. Above, to W, hipped gable end of older house
visible.
INTERIOR: much rebuilt, but break between E and W units clear,
with pair of independent house frames visible at rear on first
floor. Jowled corner posts, arched bracing at W end on first
floor imply that the house originally went on to W (site of
alleyway). Step stopped chamfer on bridging joist on W end
places this unit probably before 1560. E unit has large rear
lateral fireplace on ground floor (now removed above) timber
lintel with rebuilt jambs. Rear 2-storey addition c1800,
timber-framed with some primary braced walling exposed and
original rear wall plate with stud mortices. The house front
appears to have been very ornate in the C17 and the surviving
first floor consoles would nave supported slightly projecting
oriel windows. RCHM notes 4 surviving consoles.

Listing NGR: TL5373438715

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585328

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2