4, GOLD STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196173
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: 4, GOLD STREET
Statutory Address:: 4, GOLD STREET

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Date:: 2004-10-13
Reference:: IOE01/13497/11
Rights:: © Mr Norman H Sumter. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196173
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: 4, GOLD STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 4, GOLD 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:: 4, GOLD 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 53804 38369

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 GOLD STREET 669-1/1/158 (West side) 01/11/72 No.4 (Formerly Listed as: GOLD STREET Nos.2 AND 4)

GV II

Previously listed as 2 houses, now combined into one. House, now offices. c1600, with reworking in c1800 and C20. Timber-framed and plastered, brick, with clay tiled roofs. Plan L shaped. 2 storeys. Front E elevation: long 4 window range, traces of ashlar lining, cove with lower bead moulding under eaves, stacks c1800 at ridge at N and S ends. All windows except one are sashes with moulded architraves, glazing bars, 3x4 panes. One, on ground floor at N end, C19 triple sash with glazing bars, 1x4, 3x4, 1x4 panes. 2 doorways with cornice hoods and moulded architraves, larger central one has 6 recessed moulded panels, other adjacent to triple window similar, of 5 panes. Rear W elevation: 2 conjoined gabled wings, central and to S end, some ashlar lining remains, also fan-combed panel pargetting on N side of central wing. Ridge piece and side purlins exposed in each gable. Street range, restored at N end in rendered brickwork and simple doorway. Wings, ground floor, C20 double casement window with glazing bars, 4x3 panes, 3 small single-light casements, boarded door on N elevation. First floor, 2 restored C19 sash windows, glazing bars, 3x4 panes. INTERIOR: much refurbished for office use but jowled posts and wall plates exposed to full house height on first floor. 3 principal bays with additional short central bay on site of principal front door, further short stack bay at S end suggesting original form similar to that seen now.

Listing NGR: TL5380438369

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Legacy System number:: 370545
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.