57 High 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 669-1/1/206 (West side) 28/11/51 No.57

GV II

Former house, now offices. C18 and early C19. Timber-framed and rendered with gabled plain tile roof. 2 storeys with attics and cellar. Front elevation has 2 full-height canted bay windows with double-hung sashes with single central vertical glazing bars. On the first floor is a similar central double hung sash window. The ground floor has a central early C19 painted timber doorcase with flat hood, Doric capitals and frieze of roundels. 5 rendered steps with swept wrought-iron handrails and bootscrapers. Door of 6 raised and fielded panels on S end to yard access. To the rear is a 2-storey extension with low pitched slate roof and painted brick rear wall. 2 substantial rear wall stacks, gabled stair housing, one 2-light casement dormer and concrete tiled single storey lean-to. The right hand bay appears earlier and has some exposed framing on a partition with interrupted studs and a straight brace.

Listing NGR: TL5373138326

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0547 IOE Records taken by Dominic Davey; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Dominic Davey. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project