26 AND 28, CASTLE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196137
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: 26 AND 28, CASTLE STREET
Statutory Address:: 26 AND 28, CASTLE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196137
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: 26 AND 28, CASTLE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 26 AND 28, CASTLE STREET

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:: 26 AND 28, CASTLE STREET

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 53797 38725

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CASTLE STREET 669-1/1/62 (South side) 28/11/51 Nos.26 AND 28

GV II

2 houses. C16 core with early C19 reconstruction and C20 refurbishment. Timber-framed and plastered, peg-tiled roof. L shaped plan of street range with 2 conjoined C20 additions. 2 storeys, attics and cellar. Front, N elevation: 2 window, 2 door range, doors to centre. C20 pargetting panels, fan combed at No.28, No.26 applied detail of fleur-de-lys, lions heads and rosettes, also bishop in gabled niche. No.26, C20 boarded door with decorative hinges, adjacent, C20 4-light casement window with leaded panes, similar first floor window above. No.28 has 6 panel door, upper 2 glazed, lower fielded, adjacent small 3-cant bay window on central bracket, glazing bars, 5x3 panes, first floor C19 2-light sliding sash window, glazing bars, 6x3 panes. Rear, S elevation: all details C20. No.26, full width clay tiled lean to, No.28 partial ground floor lean-to, plain doors and 2-light casement window, first floor, one single and one 2-light casement, 2 sky lights. INTERIOR: No.26, considerable imitation timber framing but C16 outer members, jowled posts, tie-beams and rails of house unit evident. Cellar remains. No.28 has post medieval slender ceiling joists.

Listing NGR: TL5379738725

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Legacy System number:: 370441
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.