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SAFFRON WALDEN TL5338 HILL STREET
669-1/1/242 (South side)
28/11/51 Sullivan House, former Baptist
Chapel
(Formerly Listed as:
HILL STREET
General Baptist Chapel) II Baptist chapel, no longer in use. Reached by alleyway W of
No.25 (qv). Constructed 1792 and renovated in 1890. C20
additional porch and further renovation. Timber-framed and
plastered with brick ground floor walling, peg-tiled roof,
some repair in C20 brown clay tiles. Rectangular plan. 2
storeys. E front elevation: 3 bays with C19 projecting ground
floor gabled porch with flanking C20 flat roofed additions.
Porch has shaped barge-boards, plain doorway with overlight,
simple arch-head blind niche each side, door C19, 2 leaves
with 6 bead moulded flush panels. First floor, C19 sashes with
glazing bars 4x4 panes. Roof hipped. W end elevation: 2 window
range, first floor windows have moulded architraves, sashes
with glazing bars, 4x4 panes. Ground floor C20 full width
slated lean-to addition with central gabled porch in similar
style to one at E end. Two 4x4 paned sash windows. 2 leaf door
with 4 panels. Hipped roof has 2 ridges with small valley
between. N and S side elevations similar, 2 first floor sash
windows, moulded architraves, glazing bars, 4x4 panes. Ground
floor, 3 C20 2-light metal casement windows. To left, in
ground floor porch, C20 casement window, glazing bars, 2x2
panes.
INTERIOR: first floor rooms have panelled dado, some C19
panelled doors. Ground floor all refurbished and altered in
C20. The congregation was founded in 1711 by Robert Cosen,
steward of Audley End House (qv).
Listing NGR: TL5397338416
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