LION HOUSE

LION HOUSE, AUDLEY END ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196113
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: LION HOUSE
Statutory Address:: LION HOUSE, AUDLEY END ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196113
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: LION HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LION HOUSE, AUDLEY END ROAD

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

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:: LION HOUSE, AUDLEY END ROAD

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 52373 37995

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL53NW AUDLEY END ROAD, Audley End 669-1/3/346 (South side) 28/11/51 Lion House (Formerly Listed as: AUDLEY END Lion House)

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Formerly known as: House opposite main entrance to Audley End House AUDLEY END. House. Early C19. Red brick, hipped slate roof. Rectangular plan but front centre brought forward in 3 cants. 2 storeys. Front, N elevation: 5 bays, comprising central 3-cant, 3 window range together with narrow single bay blocks each side, separately roofed. All windows of `Gothick' 2-centred arched form with sashes and glazing bars, 4x3 panes plus intersecting `Y' tracery above. Central yellow brick stack at roof apex. Rear elevation: rectangular block with similar central ground and first floor windows, triple sashes with glazing bars, each 1x4,5x4,1x4 panes. Also 2-light ground floor casement window to E, 4x4 panes. W end elevation: rectangular block, 5 window range, first floor, all 5 windows narrow lancets, one to N has original glazing, sash 3x3 panes plus tracery as on front, S end window blocked, central 3, one leaded panes, one single pane, one of 3 panes. Ground floor, 2 similar windows to S, one of leaded panes, one single pane. Central projecting gabled porch with shaped barge-boards and finials, also inner single side lights, lancets with fixed panes. Inner door original, 4-centred arched head, 6 flush bead moulded panels, upper pair shaped to arch and glazed. E end elevation: considerably altered in C20, rectangular block with wide plain recessed inner porch containing 5 C20 doors. To S, C20 single light metal casement window, to N, blocked original lancet window. First floor, S end, broad C19 window similar to those on front elebation, 6x3 panes plus upper tracery. To N, 2 blocked lancet windows similar to one below. INTERIOR: central room, ground floor, has original marble fire surround. Stair at rear of W unit has orignal shaped handrail, turned newel posts and square balusters. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Ratcliffe E: Essex: London: 1965-: 65).

Listing NGR: TL5237337995

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Legacy System number:: 370374
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Essex, (1965), 65
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.