Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 BRIDGE STREET 669-1/1/27 (East side) 28/11/51 No.12

GV II

House. Late C16 with C18 street range, C19 additions, C20 restoration. Timber-framed and plastered, peg and clay tiled roof. Plan T shaped, of C18 principal block with pair of conjoined C16 wings projecting at rear. 2 storey, partial attic and cellars. Front W elevation: 4 window range, all windows are sashes with moulded architraves, glazing bars, 4x4 panes. Ground floor, N-S, single sash window, C19 house doorway with plain jambs, console brackets, overlight and simple hood, 4 panelled door. C19 shop window and adjacent wide shop door, together under common shallow hood and fascia board, similar style to house door, window has glazing bars, 4x2 large panes, shop door of 2 leaves, upper glazing, each leaf 2x2 panes, single lower panels. Whole facade C18 combed panel pargetting. Roof has half hipped ends, large stacks seen behind apex. S end, C19 red brick slender stack. Rear, E elevation: 2 conjoined gabled units with large red brick stacks at each apex, rebuilt in C20 but probably keeping original shape, diagonal cruciform to N, irregular rectangular to S. Both gabled units share central wall plate, other plates and purlins also project. Whole end wall has C20 combed pargetting copying that on street front. Windows irregular, all early C20 casements, ground floor, N-S, 2-light with glazing bars, 4x3 panes, simple C19 boarded door, house back door, C19 with lower flush panel, now upper glazing, 3x3 panes, 3-light casement window 6x3 panes. First floor, (in N unit), 3-light casement, 6x3 panes and 2-light casement, one with clear single pane, one with rectangular leaded panes Street block behind projects at both ends, particularly to S with roof brought down over simple boarded door and C18 casement window now partly removed. Attic in street range has central gabled dormer window with plain double casement. S end elevation: half hipped gabled end of street range has central exterior C19 slender stack and catslide roof, rear lean-to, C20 paretting as rear, ground floor, 6-panelled door, upper panels now blocked, central ones glazed, lower ones recessed, also early C20 casement window, 4x3 panes similar to those in rear elevation. Behind, to E side of S rear unit, C20 weatherboarded. Ground floor, 3x3 paned casement window, first floor, C20 4x3 paned 2-light casement. Large stack rises from apex at house/wing junction. N end elevation: all with plain rendering. Street range has C20 2-light casement attic window, 6x3 panes immediately below roof half hip. Rear wing has one ground floor 3-light metal casement window. Cruciform stack at roof apex. INTERIOR: timber framing now mainly concealed but ground floor rooms of twin gabled rear unit have exposed ceiling joists, closely set and flat laid with lamb's tongue chamfer stops in the S room. Associated late C16 moulded red brick fireplace remains in this room in good condition with 4-centred arched head within rectangular framing, cyma and hollow chamfers, moulding taken well down to base of jambs. Contemporary wainscot panelling now lines lower walling round shop, also a door made of similar panelling in N room of street range. Roof of street block ceiled in but framing of clasped side purlin type partly visible with slender members. Present front house door leads by through passage to back door set within N rear block and interior plan appears to be a combined system of front 3-unit block with rear central passage house. The moulded brick fireplace would then be within a rear heated parlour at the `high' end. The N stack may once have been for kitchen use. The wainscot panelling no doubt belongs to the house but is reset.

Listing NGR: TL5356838655

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