ASHCROFT COURT

ASHCROFT COURT, 19 AND 21, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1196153
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: ASHCROFT COURT
Statutory Address:: ASHCROFT COURT, 19 AND 21, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1196153
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: ASHCROFT COURT
Statutory Address 1:: ASHCROFT COURT, 19 AND 21, CHURCH 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:: ASHCROFT COURT, 19 AND 21, CHURCH 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 53778 38562

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CHURCH STREET 669-1/1/106 (South side) 28/11/51 Nos.19 AND 21 Ashcroft Court

GV II*

2 houses and shop converted in late C20 for office use. c1800, fronting earlier framed building. Timber-framed, gault brick, peg-tiled roof, red brick stack. Plan U shape of street range with rear framed wings. 2 storeys and cellars. Front N elevation: long brick range with parapet, brick string course and end pilasters. Roof hipped at W end. 3 window range, segment headed on first floor, all early C19 but repaired, sashes with glazing bars, 4x4 panes, ground floor E window as above, central window C20 tripartite sash with glazing bars, 1x2, 4x2, 1x2 panes. W end C20 reconstructed C19 butchers shop, long fascia head board over shop and passageway. Shop has C20 tripartite sash window with glazing bars, 1x4, 4x4, 1x4 panes, doorway canted into passage, door of 4 panels. Adjacent C20 2-leaf boarded stable door. Passageway opposite E side, C20 4-panel door, passageway has 2 cross tie-beams and axial beam with C19 iron strap ties, also suspension hooks. 2 arched cellar recesses below centre window, blocked below E window with pavement grille. W end elevation: street unit roof gable stopped at rear with wing at lower level. C17 trapped side purlin construction on wing S end gable mainly timber-framed and plastered. Ground floor of street unit in brick. E end elevation: similar with S end gable revealing timber wall plate and rafter. RCHM records the survival of a mullioned window, possibly not in original position, also the presence of 2 C15 roof trusses said to survive above ceiling level.

Listing NGR: TL5377838562

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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.