23, 25 AND 27, GOLD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205875
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: 23, 25 AND 27, GOLD STREET
Statutory Address:: 23, 25 AND 27, GOLD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205875
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: 23, 25 AND 27, GOLD STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 23, 25 AND 27, GOLD 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:: 23, 25 AND 27, GOLD 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 53846 38318

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 GOLD STREET 669-1/1/164 (East side) 28/11/51 Nos.23, 25 AND 27

GV II

Large house, now 2 units. Late C18 with part earlier core, early C19 addition. Red brick, peg tile and slate roofs, red brick stacks. L shaped plan. 2 storeys and attics. Front W elevation: red brickwork has ruddled mortar tuck-pointed. Long 3 window range with conspicuous high keystoned round-arched waggon way between centre and N end windows. Windows 2 storeyed canted bays on brick bases, simple horned sashes with outer margin glazing bars, woodwork panelled between storeys. Hipped leaded roofs in line with wooden modillioned cornice, 2 stucco bands link windows along elevation. Parapet, peg-tiled mansard roof with 5 flat roofed dormer windows, 2-light casements 4x3 panes. 3 stacks, gable ends and centre. Doorway between centre and S bay (No.27), dentilled cornice hood, decorative entablature with feathers, rosette and festoon enrichment. Door of 5 panels, upper one now glazed. Second doorway (No.23), simpler with cornice hood, panelled doorcase and moulded architrave. Door of 6 panels, upper 4 now glazed, lower recessed. Rear E elevation: No.23 masked by The Malthouse (not listable) but has C20 4 panelled door. No.27 street range clear with 3 single-bayed conjoined 2-storeyed slated C18 and C19 brick additions. Earliest C18 wing to N, gabled with dentils, ground floor segment headed French window, each door leaf has upper glazing 2x3 panes, and lower panel, 4x1 paned overlight. First floor, 3x4 paned segment headed window. 2 C19 additions to S, each with monopitch roof, deeper and taller at S end, red brick and some burnt headers. 4 segment headed sash windows, three 3x4 paned sashes, one 4x4 panes. Substantial stack between centre and S addition. INTERIOR: No.27. C19 staircase remains with stick balusters, turned newels, wreathed mahogany handrail. No.23. Ground floor, ceiling of room to front has exposed joists of oak, late C16/early C17 type. The house was once contiguous with the rear malting.

Listing NGR: TL5384638318

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Legacy System number:: 370550
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.