25 AND 27, CHURCH STREET
25 AND 27, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1196155
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 25 AND 27, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 25 AND 27, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1196155
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 25 AND 27, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 25 AND 27, CHURCH STREET
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:
- 25 AND 27, 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 53798 38572
Details
SAFFRON WALDEN
TL5338 CHURCH STREET 669-1/1/110 (South side) 28/11/51 Nos.25 AND 27
GV I
House and store, once part of the Sun Inn, which included Nos 29 & 31 Church Street (qv) and 17 Market Hill (qv). C14, alteration and decoration C17, restored C19. 2 storeys. Timber-framed, plastered and elaborately pargetted, peg tile roof. H plan of hall house with jettied cross-wings. Front, N elevation: similar to Nos 29 & 31 in that it was considerably re-worked in the late C19, windows and doors were remade in Tudor style. All windows have casements with intersecting cast-iron, hexagonal latticed glazing bars as a building style. Roofs were re-raftered with side purlins and new barge-boards. Elaborate late C17 pargetting. Central hall range with low cross-wing (probably service) to E and tall cross-wing to W, upper floor raised in C17, (by the time of the pargetting) to create a carriageway below. E cross-wing and hall both have a ground and first floor window of 3 lights with cast-iron latticed panes. Also, each has a boarded, battened and studded door. Cross-wings show original jetty joists, carriageway has 2 leaved door, framed and boarded with upper spikes. Whole frontage pargetted with bold figure work on first floor including volute scrolls, pecking birds, a stocking and the well known pair of fighting men, one holding a club and the other a sword, said to be the Wisbech Giant and Tom Hickathrift, an E Anglian carter. Rear, S elevation: hall and cross-wing units visible. Two C19 stacks, one to rear of hall range, the other on E side of E cross-wing, single first floor window in each gabled end. W, double casement window in all, 4x2 panes. E, single casement, 2x2 panes, ground floor hall and E cross-wing units have a C19 yellow brick lean-to with slate roof, doorway segment headed to carriageway, yard on W side. INTERIOR: plain, medieval construction not visible. Roof space, E cross-wing has a crown-post whose collar purlin has a splayed scarf joint, crown-post has 4-way braces that are lodged and nailed to the crown-post, a C14 technique. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Ratcliffe E: Essex: London: 1965-: 337).
Listing NGR: TL5379838572
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 370489
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Essex, (1965), 337
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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