26A AND 28, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196156
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: 26A AND 28, CHURCH STREET
Statutory Address:: 26A AND 28, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196156
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: 26A AND 28, CHURCH STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 26A AND 28, 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:: 26A AND 28, CHURCH STREET

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County:: Essex
District:: Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:: Saffron Walden
National Grid Reference:: TL 53833 38606

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CHURCH STREET 669-1/1/112 (North side) 28/11/51 Nos.26A AND 28 (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET No.28)

GV II

Shop (now contiguous with shop at No.26) and office on first floor (26A). C16 altered early C19. Timber-framed, plastered, peg-tiled roof. 2 storeys. L-shaped plan with large rear lateral stack, carriageway at E end. S front elevation, long jetty cased-in in early C19 but jetty brackets and joists visible. Ground floor, central C19 doorway with ornate head, door has upper glazing, 2x2 panes, 2 lower beaded panels, to W, large fixed C19 window with simple pilasters and thin glazing bars, 6x4 panes. To E of doorway, C19 sliding sash window with glazing bars, 4x3 panes, moulded architrave, carriageway bricked to W side, timber-framed to E. C20 pair of folding doors each side. First floor, 3 sliding sashes with glazing bars, 4x3 panes, irregular spacing. Roof shows building break E of centre and behind, C19 red brick upper section of rear lateral stack visible. Rear, N elevation: front range had rear projecting block with hipped roof, stack rises behind, C20 combed pargetting. Projection, ground floor, C20 panelled door, glazed with shaped head. C20 casement window, first floor, one single light and one 2-light C20 window, also, C20 2-light window over carriageway. INTERIOR: ground floor considerably restored, bridging joist has step-stopped chamfers, lateral stack of C16 thin red brick, heavy timber lintel, rear timber-framed projection encloses the stack. Chamfered door frame between units below echoes roof break. C19 inserted fireplace at E side of older stack. First floor, brick arch headed chamfered fireplace over one below. Timber framing heavily restored, roof of wind braced side purlin form.

Listing NGR: TL5382838613

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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.