9, MARKET PLACE, 10, EMSON CLOSE

10, EMSON CLOSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196221
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: 9, MARKET PLACE, 10, EMSON CLOSE
Statutory Address:: 10, EMSON CLOSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196221
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: 9, MARKET PLACE, 10, EMSON CLOSE
Statutory Address 1:: 10, EMSON CLOSE
Statutory Address 2:: 9, MARKET PLACE

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:: 10, EMSON CLOSE
Statutory Address:: 9, MARKET PLACE

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 53895 38556

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 MARKET PLACE 669-1/1/282 (East side) 28/11/51 No.9 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE No.6 House adjoining No.6 on the north)

GV II

Includes: No.10 EMSON CLOSE. Offices and shop, contiguous with No.10 Emson Close. Late C16 and early C17 with some C19 refenestration and rear addition, C20 refurbishment. Timber-framed and plastered, peg-tiled roof. L shaped plan. 2 storeys and cellar. Front W elevation: refurbished in C20 with panel fan combed pargetting, door and windows C20. 2 window range, central doorway with cornice hood, plain jambs, door, lower panels and upper 2x3 glazing, adjacent bowed shop window on central bracket, to N, plain fixed casement. First floor windows sashes, flush framed, 3x2 panes. N elevation to Emson Close, refurbished in C20, similar to front, gable of street range has long rear range with projecting gabled stair tower and large projecting early C17 shouldered red brick stack with rebuilt C18 and C19 upper stages. Also, shallow stepped lean-to addition to W gable to ground and first floor. Ground floor, plain doorway with glazed metal door, one 3-light casement window with glazing bars, 6x3 panes and fixed casement 2x3 panes. First floor C19 sliding sash window 6x2 panes and C19 3x3 paned sash window. Stair tower has upper C19 sliding sash window 2x2 panes and lower fixed paned window. At E end, ground floor felt roofed lean-to with fully glazed door and overlight, adjacent mid-hung casement window 4x3 panes. End red brick garden wall has short slated inner lean-to, wall curves round to S elevation. E end elevation: gable end of C17 wing jettied to S, ground floor obscured by curved wall shaped up at N end, low C20 2-light casment window. First floor, early C20 3-light casement window with leaded glazing. Wall plates and roof side purlins project. S elevation: 2-bayed long jettied range, refurbished as rest but principal bracketed joists exposed, common joists have covering C19 fascia board. Ground floor long C19 sliding sash window with glazing bars, 6x3 panes. First floor C19 casement windows, one 3-light, one 2-light. INTERIOR: framing of both units partly exposed. W earlier range 2 bays originally jettied to street, principal binding joist has lamb's tongue chamfered stop. Rear E wing also 2 bays, studding has internal nailed tension bracing at E end and also blank apertures for original frieze window on E and S walls. Halved and bridled scarf joint in wall plate. Ground floor room has early C17 style paired bridging joists with lamb's tongue chamfer stops. Stack on N side, ground floor fireplace, jambs and timber lintel rebuilt in C20 but herringbone brickwork at back original. First floor fireplace has moulded brick surround with roll and hollow chamfers, flattened depressed arched head. The house is typical of late/post medieval expansion of a property on a town site. Earlier range parallel to street, probably with shop, chamber over. Expansion in fashionable style to the rear of the plot with display window, stair tower and large stack heating 2 floors with fireplace to the upper chamber.

Listing NGR: TL5389538556

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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.