21, GOLD STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196175
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: 21, GOLD STREET
Statutory Address:: 21, GOLD STREET

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Date:: 2004-10-13
Reference:: IOE01/13497/12
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196175
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: 21, GOLD STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 21, 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:: 21, 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 53836 38294

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 GOLD STREET 669-1/1/162 (East side) 01/11/72 No.21

GV II

House. 1851, refurbished in C20 for offices. Timber-framed and plastered, red brick, slate and clay tiled roofs. Plan L shaped. 2 storeys and partial attic. Front W elevation: red brick, ruddled and tuck-pointed, 5 bays, 4 window range, windows stuccoed voussoirs, sashes with thin glazing bars, 3x4 panes. Doorway second bay from S, moulded cornice and hood, moulded architrave, over-light, door of 6 moulded panels, second smaller simple doorway in N bay, stuccoed voussoir, over-light, 6 panel door. Slated roof has N end ridge stack, 2 further stacks behind roof at centre and S end. Rear E elevation: 2 conjoined brick and slated gabled wings and, to N, deeper timber-framed wing with clay tiled gambrel roof. C20 deep ground floor lean-to felted porch in internal angle. Brick units and some burnt headers, scored pointing and, inset, an inscribed stone plaque, C.P.1851. 3 first floor sash windows with ruddled and tuck-pointed voussoirs, glazing bars, 3x4 panes. Ground floor, C20 2-light window, concrete lintel and 2x2 casement window. Porch, C20, plain door with upper light and single-light casement window. N wing. C20 casement windows, ground floor to attic, 4, 3, and 2-light respectively, in S return wall first floor single light C20 casement window. S end elevation: gable of street range and short rear wing in red brick, some burnt headers, scored pointing. Single ground floor C20 rear window, concrete lintel, 3 lights. INTERIOR: principal blocks plain, C20 refurbished. N wing has some C19 framing members exposed in pine, tie-beams with knee braces, floor joists of deep, thin section. The N wing probably pre-dates the brick building with which it was incorporated in major brick enlargement of 1851.

Listing NGR: TL5383638294

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Legacy System number:: 370549
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.