1 AND 2, MUSEUM YARD
1 AND 2, MUSEUM YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025130
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, MUSEUM YARD
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, MUSEUM YARD
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- Date:
- 2004-10-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/13521/19
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025130
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, MUSEUM YARD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2, MUSEUM YARD
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, MUSEUM YARD
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:
- TL 53787 38689
Details
SAFFRON WALDEN
TL5338 MUSEUM YARD 669-1/1/306 Nos.1 AND 2 01/11/72
GV II
2 houses. c1800. Timber-framed and plastered, slate roof, red brick stack. Z shaped plan of principal range and 2 later additions. 2 storeys and cellars. Front S elevation: shared central stack and stack at E gable end. No.1 (W), all features C20, 2 window range, casements with glazing bars, ground and first floor, one 2-light 4x3 panes, one 6-light 6x3 panes. Central doorway, door has upper 2x3 paned glazing. Cellar light. No.2 has original plastering with traces of ashlar lining. 2 window range, windows have original moulded architraves and early C20 casements, all 4x3 panes. Ground floor, E end, front door site covered by C20 single storey brick extension to S. Monopitch slate roof, plain door with upper light, window of 3 casements, glazing bars, 6x3 panes. Rear N elevation: construction dictated by house abutting the earthen bailey bank of Saffron Walden Castle (qv). Solid wall of fling cobble and erratics, capped by brickwork, to W end, C19 single storeyed lean-to, slated roof with skylight. 3 C20 casement windows, one 2 light. E end elevation: C19 red brick partly buried in earth bank, timber gable triangle, plastered stack at SE corner.
Listing NGR: TL5378738689
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 370693
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
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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