9, COMMON HILL

9, COMMON HILL

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Explore this list entry

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1205663
Date first listed:
01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
9, COMMON HILL
Statutory Address:
9, COMMON HILL
User submitted image
Contributed by Helen C-F This photo may not represent the current condition of the site. Over 400,000 images and stories have been added to the Missing Pieces Project so far. Share your story.
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places. 

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

Icon Buildings
Icon Scheduled monuments
Icon Parks and gardens
Icon Battlefields
Icon Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.
Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.
Date:
2003-02-19
Reference:
IOE01/07486/02
Rights:
© Mr Peter A Riding. Source: Historic England Archive

Local Heritage Hub

Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.

Discover more

Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1205663
Date first listed:
01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
9, COMMON HILL
Statutory Address 1:
9, COMMON HILL

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

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:
9, COMMON HILL

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 53946 38637

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 COMMON HILL 669-1/1/124 (West side) 01/11/72 No.9

GV II

House. Early C17 core, C18 refronting, early C19 and C20 rear lean-tos. Timber-framed and plastered with traces of ashlar lining, clay tiled roof, also corrugated asbestos cement, red brick stack. L shaped plan. 2 storeys, attic and cellar. Front elevation: 3 window range, half hipped mansard roof with shallow raking dormers, stack off-centre to S. Ground and first floor windows 2-light C19 casements with moulded architraves, glazing bars, 4x4 panes. Dormers similar, C20 4x3 panes. Doorway at S end with simple hood on console brackets, C20 flush bead moulded boarded door, hinged cellar shutters below windows. Carriageway (part of No.10 (qv)) at N end, flat head, C19 cast-iron corner braces, C19 2-leaf boarded doors, one with wicket. Rear W elevation: mainly comprises early C19 timber-framed single storey lean-to but roof falls from high under house eaves, corrugated asbestos cement and plastic roof sheeting. 2 early C20 casement windows, 1 and 2-light, C20 rear addition at N end, felted roof, C20 2-panel door, upper panel glazed. INTERIOR: principal outer C17 framing members seen on first floor, C20 refurbished. Cellar walling of flint cobble and brick with central dividing wall with arched connecting opening, blind arches, around all outer walls. Rear lean-to early C19, 2 tie-beams cross central area.

Listing NGR: TL5394638637

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
370506
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 9, COMMON HILL

Map

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 10-Jul-2026 at 09:09:30.

Download a full scale map (PDF)
© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. Use of this mapping is subject to Terms and Conditions.

End of official list entry

All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.

Previous Overview
Next Comments and Photos