8 AND 10, MUSEUM STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196228
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: 8 AND 10, MUSEUM STREET
Statutory Address:: 8 AND 10, MUSEUM STREET

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Date:: 2001-06-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196228
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: 8 AND 10, MUSEUM STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 8 AND 10, MUSEUM 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:: 8 AND 10, MUSEUM 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 53754 38675

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 MUSEUM STREET 669-1/1/301 (West side) 01/11/72 Nos.8 AND 10

GV II

Pair of small houses. C18 with C20 additions and renovation. Timber-framed and plastered, some brick, peg-tiled roof, red brick stacks. U shaped plan of principal range with rear additions. One and a half and 2 storeys with cellar. Front E elevation: mainly C20 restoration, 3 window range. Ground floor, two 3-light casements with glazing bars, 6x3 panes, at N end, 1 sash window with glazing bars, 4x4 panes, raised cellar light below on pavement. 2 doorways alternating with windows, to S, with simple peg-tiled hood on brackets, door boarded and battened, to N, doorway united with sash window by weathering board, area below now of brick, door has upper glazing, 2x3 panes, 3 lower panels. 3 gabled dormer windows over windows below, each with double casements, glazing bars, 4x3 panes. Large stack at S end from roof apex, second stack from apex between central and N windows. Rear, W elevation: whole back of original house extended in C19 and C20, nearly all features now C20. N wing of 2 phases, principal 2 storey run has rebuilt red brick stack at W end with further red brick ground floor extension. One first floor C19 sash window with glazing bars in range, all rest C20 casements, C20 door. Secondary lean-to in internal angle. Central unit, 2 storey, flat roofed addition, 2 window range, taken into original roof pitch, C20 casements. S wing, N side has C20 door and adjacent C20 double casement window. INTERIOR: No.10, total C20 reworking, including relined cellar lit from raised street light.

Listing NGR: TL5375438675

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Legacy System number:: 370688
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.