1-7, VILLAGE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1196244
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: 1-7, VILLAGE STREET
Statutory Address:: 1-7, VILLAGE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1196244
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: 1-7, VILLAGE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 1-7, VILLAGE 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:: 1-7, VILLAGE 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 52485 37947

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL53NW VILLAGE STREET, Audley End 669-1/3/348 (East side) 28/11/51 Nos.1-7 (Odd) (Formerly Listed as: VILLAGE STREET, Audley End Nos.1-11 (Odd))

GV II*

Post office, shop and houses. Post office (part of No.1) was once the village school. C19, C20 amalgamation and renumbering (nos 9 & 11 no longer exist). Red brick, peg-tiled roof, decorative shaped barge-boards on N gable ends. Single storey. Street, W elevation, N-S. No.1, C20 door with upper glazing, glazing bars, 3 casement windows with glazing bars, one has original segment head, 3-cant bay window with glazing bars, 2 C20 boarded doors, one with upper glazing and 3 lower panels. Adjacent house, No.3 (but part overlapping with No.1) one and half storey range with 2-storey cross-wing at S end, lower red brick with upper plastered timber framing, remains of early basket pargetting, peg-tiled roof, stack central to street range and small one in internal angle of blocks. Ground floor, 2 hip-roofed C20 canted bay windows, 2-pane shop window and door with 2 upper glazed panels. Above, 3 dormer windows, 2 have double casements, glazing bars, each with 2x4 panes and one is C20 , plain. Cross-wing timber-framed and plastered, upper and lower sliding sash windows. Building line breaks forward. Nos 5 & 7 both 2 storeys, timber-framed and plastered. No.5 has 3 window range mainly with sliding sashes. No.7 has 4 window range, all sliding sashes. Both have 2 boarded street doors, central stack to No.5. S end gable stack to No.7 integrates with C20 end elevation lean-to. No.7 has some early basket pargetting. Rear, E elevation: similar to front but No.5 has C20 gabled single storey addition. No.7 has old, timber-framed, gabled rear wing and pantiled lean-to. INTERIOR: Nos 1 & 3 contain a C16 divided hall with large smoke bay (sooted) surrounding site of present early C17 inserted stack, roll moulded floor joists jointed to similar binding-joist/head beam. Roll-in-hollow moulded wall plate and embattled rail at hall high end also remain. Roof over hall has 2 bays of elegant wind braced side purlin form. Rear, N cross wall of smoke bay has unusual combination of post and braced tie-beam truss with deep arched braces and upper curved braces, as a display feature at the end of the hall. Later in C16 this end was converted into a smoke bay by partial infilling of the hall. To N, remnants of 2 bays with crown-post roof (service end) remain behind paired bay windows. Cross-wing now cleared of early features but side purlins remain on facade.

Listing NGR: TL5248537947

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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.