Jubilee House

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SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 HILL STREET 669-1/1/233 (South side) 28/11/51 No.5 Jubilee House (Formerly Listed as: HILL STREET No.5 Municipal Offices)

GV II*

Formerly known as: No.7 HILL STREET. House, now divided into 2 office units. c1720 with major rear and side additions of c1850 and lesser one of C20. Red, brown and gault brick, slate roofs. Plan L shaped. 3 and 2 storeyed with cellars. Front elevation: red brick with burnt headers, ruddled mortar, tuck pointed. Principal unit, 6 bays 3 storeyed flat facade, string courses between floors, roof hipped with modillioned eaves cornice, E and W end stacks in brown and red brick. Doorway in third bay from E, cornice hood, flat Tuscan pilasters, ornate frieze, overlight with circle decorated glazing bars. Windows, rubbed brick voussoirs, sashes, ground and first floor 3x4 panes, second floor 3x3 panes. Cellar grilles each side of doorway. To N, C19 2-storey single bayed addition, almost similar brickwork, parapet with string. Ground floor, shop windows and door, C20 refurbished, framing of reeded pilasters and corner paterae. First floor, 3x4 paned sash window in house style. Rear, S elevation: 2 distinct units (1) street range, has full height projecting stair `tower' at E end and C19 canted bay window through 3 storeys to W, both now tile hung in C19 style. Angle between units enclosed by C20 ground floor addition into which passes a C19 cast and wrought-iron tented canopy of bay window. Canopy now C20 copper sheeted. Behind, C19 French windows with margin glazing. Above, first and second floor sash window 3x4 panes, further single window on each storey between canted bay and stair tower and another in the tower. C20 addition has fully glazed French window and two C20 sash windows. (2) C19 rear addition, L plan and butted to stair tower, gault brickwork has band between floors and door and windows with round blind arched keystoned heads, all stuccoed. Doorway has 2-leafed door, upper glazing with margin lights (partly blocked). Above, bull's-eye window with swinging casement. 3 ground floor windows, 2 with 2-light casements, 4x4 panes, one replaced in C20 2x2 panes. Also, large C19 triple sash window, glazing bars, 1x4, 3x4, 1x4 panes. First floor, C20 casement windows, three 2-light, one 4-light metal. E elevation: C19 N end, 3 bays, red brickwork matched to front but with `Gothick' mouldings, roll and hollow chamfer. Prominent exterior stack with buttresses. Ground floor, 2 segment headed windows, one of 3x4 panes, other plain. First floor, 3 segment headed windows, 2 of these, one each side of stack have paired lancet lights under 4-centred arched head, one to N is simple sash. Door of 4 flush bead moulded panels in N side of stack. To S, C19 red brick 2-storeyed service range with central hip roofed stair wing projecting E. First floor balcony with decorative cast-iron railings on N side of wing. 7 window range in all, some segment headed, all except one, sashes, 3x4 4x4 and 5x4 panes. Stair window in wing sash 3x6 panes, ground floor tripartite window 1x4, 3x4, 1x4 panes. 2 ground floor windows in wing blocked. W end elevation: central stack, ground floor 2 elliptical-headed 2-light casement windows, single second floor C18 sash window 3x3 panes, 2 C20 fire-doors. INTERIOR: very complete early C18 stair, dogleg open string, 3 turned balusters to each tread, carved tread brackets, fluted Corinthian newel posts, shaped handrail ramped to posts and wreathed at base. Similar dado with fielded panelling continued above. Rooms of house also C18 panelled. C19 addition, N end, first floor room (to street) has `Gothick' moulded plaster ceiling, tierceron ribs from leaf corbels, 2 large back to back kitchen fireplaces on ground floor of service wing. Cellars below C18 range and part of C19 unit. In NE section ground floor joists are exposed, of oak, with diminished haunched soffit tenons undisturbed, also long bridging joist with lamb's tongue chamfer stops. House no doubt replaces an older building (early C17?) hence survival of floor, position of excellent stair in rear tower and asymmetrical site of front street door.

Listing NGR: TL5391138435

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