17, HIGH STREET
17, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196186
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1969
- List Entry Name:
- 17, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 17, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196186
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1969
- List Entry Name:
- 17, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 17, HIGH 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:
- 17, HIGH 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 53665 38508
Details
SAFFRON WALDEN
TL5338 HIGH STREET 669-1/1/187 (West side) 29/08/69 No.17
GV II
Shop and flats. Early C19 and earlier. Timber-framed and rendered and painted Flemish bond brickwork front to High Street. Roof of front range is hipped and part slate, part plain machine made clay tiles. Parallel rear range and long range at right angles to rear with plain tile roofs. 2 storeys and complex plan form. Front has pulvinated frieze and 4 giant Doric pilasters, one returning on N flank. Centre bay is slightly recessed. First floor has three 12 paned double hung sash windows and ground floor has 2 tripartite double hung sash windows with small panes in upper halves. Central doorcase with moulded cornice, moulded architrave and panelled reveals. Rectangular fanlight over door now infilled. Exposed N flank to access way is of ashlared render with a double-hung hung sash window on each floor with moulded surrounds and 8 large square panes. Small hipped roofed parallel 2-storey range to rear. 2 flat roofed extensions, one single and one of 2 storeys to the W. Behind this is a long rear range at right angles with gabled W end abutting a C19 rear extension with scalloped pargetting on its N flank. Large red brick cruciform plan stack over front range and smaller rectangular stack adjoining, also stack on long rear range. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TL5366538508
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 370572
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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