42 High Street / 42 George Street

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 HIGH STREET 669-1/1/200 (East side) 01/11/72 No.42

GV II

Includes: No.1 GEORGE STREET. Shops with flats over. Late C18. Red Flemish bond brickwork with gault brick dressings and `L' plan, roof of plain tiles, hipped to N and gabled to rear (E) with stack. 2 further red brick rectangular stacks. 3 storeys with plain parapet having stone coping, painted timber cornice. Elevations to High Street and George Street are similar and have, on the second floor, three 12 paned double hung sash windows recessed in the wall. The majority of sash windows have thick glazing bars. On the first floors of each public elevation are 3 similar taller 12 paned double hung sash windows with rendered stepped keystone heads. On the High Street elevation is an old fire insurance plaque and George Street elevation has old metal street name. Each ground floor has a C20 shopfront and that to High Street an entrance door to flat over.

Listing NGR: TL5373238396

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1697 IOE Records taken by Peter A Riding; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Peter A Riding. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project