1 AND 3, HILL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196203
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: 1 AND 3, HILL STREET
Statutory Address:: 1 AND 3, HILL STREET

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Date:: 2001-06-30
Reference:: IOE01/03739/17
Rights:: © Mr John Stubbington. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196203
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: 1 AND 3, HILL STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 1 AND 3, HILL 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:: 1 AND 3, HILL 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 53821 38403

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 HILL STREET 669-1/1/232 (South side) 01/11/72 Nos.1 AND 3 (Formerly Listed as: HILL STREET Nos.1 AND 3 Fire and Ambulance Station)

GV II

Offices of community centre. Mid/late C19, long single storeyed rear C20 addition. Grey gault and red brick, composition dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan. 2 storeys and attics and cellars. Front N elevation in classical style, gault brick, 3 bays, central facade gable, deep modillioned eaves. Ridge stacks at E and W ends with diagonally set shafts. Central doorway with panelled doorcase, overlight with fretted glazing bars, C19 5 panel door, upper panels glazed. Windows sashes, 3x4 panes, one in gable 3x3 panes. W end elevation similar to front, single sash window on first floor 3x4 panes, single attic casement window 2x2 panes, plain C20 ground floor casement windows. Large rectangular area of red brick on ground floor. Rear, S elevation in Gothic style. Ground floor replaced by C20 work. First floor, red brick, 3 bays and facade gable. Windows have chamfered brickwork surrounds and labels, transoms and mullions, two 3-light, one 2-light casements with glazing bars, 6x5 panes and 4x5 panes. Attic window in gable similar, 2-light 4x4 panes, stone bust on corbel above, eaves and barge-boards have cusped shaping and end pendants. E end elevation: similar to S, single window on ground and first floors, both 3-light casements, 6x4 panes, shaped barge-boards have apex bracket on carved corbel. INTERIOR rebuilt in C20, plain.

Listing NGR: TL5382138403

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Legacy System number:: 370616
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.