2 AND 3, ABBEY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1204309
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: 2 AND 3, ABBEY LANE
Statutory Address:: 2 AND 3, ABBEY LANE

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Date:: 2001-06-20
Reference:: IOE01/03738/06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1204309
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: 2 AND 3, ABBEY LANE
Statutory Address 1:: 2 AND 3, ABBEY LANE

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:: 2 AND 3, ABBEY LANE

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 53663 38366

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 ABBEY LANE 669-1/1/1 (North side) 01/11/72 Nos.2 AND 3

GV II

Pair of houses. c1800. Timber-framed and plastered, peg-tiled roof. U shaped plan of original rectangular block. 2 storeys and attics with cellars, with full length 2-storey rear lean-to, and further ground floor U shaped lean-to round rear yard. Front, S elevation: 2 window range with front doors at outer E and W ends. Gambrel roof with half hipped ends and simple block modillioned eaves cornice. Tall shared C19 red brick stack in front roof pitch. No.2, to E, 3-cant bay windows through both floors, corbelled at base, windows, sashes with glazing bars, 1x4, 3x4, 1x4 panes. Ground floor exterior hinged side shutters remain with framed retaining recesses on house wall. Cellar grating below. Doorway of simple classical form with plain hood. Door of 6 moulded recessed panels. Attic has 2 dormer windows with swept roofs and double casementw with glazing bars, each 2x2 panes. No.3, to W, similar but corbelled bay window only on ground floor, above, restored C20 window in C18 style with moulded architrave, 4x4 panes. Doorway has simple weather hood, C19 door of 4 bead-moulded flush panels. Attic has single dormer window in house style. Rear, N elevation: large sweep of roofs, upper one clay tile and lower ones slated. Large central lateral C19 stack in red brick at upper part of main lean-to roof adjacent to No.3. C20 hipped dormer with 2 casements, each 2x4 panes. To W, tall slender C19 stack at end of building. First floor, No.2 has early C19 sash window, moulded architrave and thin glazing bars, 3x4 panes. No.3 has C20 casement windows with glazing bars, one 2x2 and one 3x3 panes.

Listing NGR: TL5366338366

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Legacy System number:: 370360
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.