Primes Close

PRIMES CLOSE, 1, 1A AND 9A, PARK LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1025095
Date first listed:
01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
Primes Close
Statutory Address:
PRIMES CLOSE, 1, 1A AND 9A, PARK LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1025095
Date first listed:
01-Nov-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:
Primes Close
Statutory Address 1:
PRIMES CLOSE, 1, 1A AND 9A, PARK LANE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:
PRIMES CLOSE, 1, 1A AND 9A, PARK LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Essex
District:
Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:
Saffron Walden
National Grid Reference:
TL5355338405

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 PARK LANE 669-1/1/319 (South side) 01/11/72 Nos.1, 1A, 9 and 9A Primes Close (Formerly Listed as: PARK LANE Nos 1 & 9 Primes Close)

II

2 houses, facing each other, E and W, across a small green. 1847 (date plaque). Part of a development of almshouses. Enlarged and divided in C20. Gault and red brick, peg and clay tiled roofs. Front elevation (E and W) gault brick, 3 window range, central doorway, prominent gault gable-end stacks each with paired diagonally set shafts. Doorway chamfered, 4-centre arched head, boarded door of 2 leaves, 4 windows all similar, chamfered reveals, splayed sills, sliding sashes with glazing bars, 4x4 panes. Central first floor window projecting gabled brick oriel on concave corbel, 2-light casement window 2x4 panes. Rear elevation, E and W, red brick, with some burnt headers, ground and first floor C20 casement windows to outer ends, 2x4 panes. Central 2 storeyed C20 addition with stairway, casement windows with glazing bars, C20 door. No.1A, addition in red brick and rendered. No.9A, yellow grey brick, doorway projected out to S. N and S end elevations: gables have moulded barge-boards. Date plaques on N ends. Nos 1 & 1A S end has casement windows on ground and first floor, 2x3 panes and 2x4 panes respectively.

Listing NGR: TL5364038413

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Legacy System number:
370708
Legacy System:
LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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