Walden Lodge
WALDEN LODGE, ABBEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196109
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Walden Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- WALDEN LODGE, ABBEY LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/11940/21
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196109
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Walden Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALDEN LODGE, ABBEY LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- WALDEN LODGE, AUDLEY PARK
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:
- WALDEN LODGE, ABBEY LANE
- Statutory Address:
- WALDEN LODGE, AUDLEY PARK
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 53401 38270
Details
SAFFRON WALDEN
TL5338 ABBEY LANE 669-1/1/9 (North side) 01/11/72 Walden Lodge
II
Lodge to Audley End park. 1814. Possibly by Thomas Rickman. Enlarged c1977. Grey brickwork, addition in red brick, low pitch roof, originally lead. Plan irregular, of original square block with octagonal stair tower projecting at SE corner and porch on W front, together with added larger square, slightly set back on N side with porch on N end, 2 storeys. W front elevation to park: both original and later units are a single bay. S end (original bay), central projecting porch, embattled with moulded string, 4-centre arched doorway with label, inner door original, boarded and battened, outer door C20 mahogany, 2 leaves. Above, double casement window, glazing bars, each 2x3 panes, set in plain, broad, rendered, mock-stone surround, moulded label. All windows, old and new, are in this style. Embattled parapet and moulded string which is continued round whole building. Adjacent, to N, brick unit with single window on each floor, To N, set back, single storey brick porch in house style with simple doorway, plain boarded door. E elevation to Hanover Place: 2 single bayed blocks, old and new, in house style, newer N block slightly set back, to N, rear blank wall of N end porch, S end, octagonal stair tower, embattled with moulded string. Upper stage projects above house roof line and has blind embrasure in each face. S end elevation: single bay in house style with a window on both floors, porch blank wall set back on W side. At E end, stair tower has narrow stair lights with glazing bars, on ground and first floors, each 1x4 panes. Below lower window a brick is neatly inscribed G.C.1814. N end elevation: brick block in house style with single storey projecting porch at E end. Both have a single ground floor window. INTERIOR. Plain.
Listing NGR: TL5340138270
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 370366
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 15 Essex,
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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