36, 38 AND 40, WALDEN ROAD

36, 38 AND 40, WALDEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196252
Date first listed:
01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
36, 38 AND 40, WALDEN ROAD
Statutory Address:
36, 38 AND 40, WALDEN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196252
Date first listed:
01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
36, 38 AND 40, WALDEN ROAD
Statutory Address 1:
36, 38 AND 40, WALDEN ROAD

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
36, 38 AND 40, WALDEN ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Essex
District:
Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:
Sewards End
National Grid Reference:
TL 57065 38121

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL53NE WALDEN ROAD, Sewards End 669-1/4/393 (South side) 01/11/72 Nos.36, 38 AND 40

II

3 houses built as a block. C18 with some early C20 refenestration. Timber-framed and plastered on red brick plinth, red brick stacks, thatched roof. Plan rectangular. 2 storeys. Front S elevation (Nos 38 & 40). 2 boarded doors, 4 window range with one additional window on ground floor. 1 ground floor and 3 first floor C18 iron casement windows with rectangular leaded panes, rest C20 2-light casements. Roof hipped with large central Cl8 rectangular stack through front roof pitch. Rear N elevation: integral lean-to, thatched roof continued down, second large stack through rear roof pitch similar and in line with first. Lean-to has one large C18 iron casement window with leaded panes at E end. 2 similar 2-light casements with moulded architraves, one small casement window. `Eyebrow' dormer window at W end with 2-light casement window. W end elevation: hipped gable end of house with rear lean-to, boarded door of No.36 with adjacent C18 2-light iron casement window with leaded panes. First floor, early C20 2-light casement window. E end elevation: boarded door. Early C20 2-light casement window on first floor. INTERIOR not inspected but seen to have slender studding and similar ceiling joists of C18 type.

Listing NGR: TL5706538121

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
370740
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of 36, 38 AND 40, WALDEN ROAD

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