34, 36 AND 38, GOLD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196178
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: 34, 36 AND 38, GOLD STREET
Statutory Address:: 34, 36 AND 38, GOLD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196178
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: 34, 36 AND 38, GOLD STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 34, 36 AND 38, 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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 34, 36 AND 38, 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 53834 38277

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 GOLD STREET 669-1/1/167 (West side) 28/11/51 Nos.34, 36 AND 38

GV II

Terraced row of houses. Early C16, with C18 additions and refenestration, C20 restoration. Timber-framed, partly exposed and plastered. Plan, long rectangle of street range with irregular rear projections. 2 storeys and cellars. Front E elevation: long jetty range, first floor framing exposed, 4 bays, close studding with tension brace at S end. Principal jetty joists and support brackets. Large rectangular stack at S end in red brick partly rendered. First floor, 4 windows, S-N, 2x2 paned casement, two 2-light sliding sash windows 4x3 panes, C20 3-light casement window with leaded glazing build round early C16 oriel with moulded projecting sill. Ground floor, S-N, single-light casement window, sash window with glazing bars, 4x4 panes, C20 fully-glazed door 3x5 panes set under original C16 4-centred arched door head, hollow chamfered and with flower and leaf decorated spandrels, C19 4-panelled door and 4x3 paned sliding sash window together under C16 rectangular framed and moulded twin shop window frames. Cellar opening below with top-hung wooden boarded door, C20 2x2 paned casement window with blocked cellar opening below now with air vent. Rear, W elevation: has gabled additions renovated in C20. INTERIOR: not inspected but plan in Stenning DF Fig.19, p.38 of C16 layout shows doorway with decorated head leading to cross passage with rear service and stair doorway. Shop to N with service rooms behind, hall to S of cross passage with internal fireplace at S end and adjacent parlour doorway opening. N end door led to an original through way to rear, the N bay being, originally, a separate unit from the rest. (Vernacular Architecture: Stenning DF: Timber Framed Shops, 1300-1600: Comparative Plans:16: 1985-: 38).

Listing NGR: TL5383438277

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Vernacular Architecture' in Vernacular Architecture, (1985), 38

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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.