2 AND 4, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1206398
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: 2 AND 4, LONDON ROAD
Statutory Address:: 2 AND 4, LONDON ROAD

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Date:: 2001-02-12
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1206398
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: 2 AND 4, LONDON ROAD
Statutory Address 1:: 2 AND 4, LONDON ROAD

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 4, LONDON ROAD

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 53755 38097

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 LONDON ROAD 669-1/1/260 (North West side) Nos.2 AND 4

II

Office, formerly house. Late C16 frame, late C17 rebuilding, early C19 rear addition. Timber-framed and plastered on a brick sill, peg tile and slate roof, red brick central stack. L shaped plan of principal range and short full height addition in E side. 2 storey and cellar. Front, S elevation: 2 window range. Ground floor, E-W, diagonally set plain doorway across corner to Barnard's Yard, curved steps up, overlight, door has upper glazing, 2x3 panes. Adjacent wide early C19 shop window, cornice hood and consoles,now with single fixed glass pane, simple sash window with glazing bars, 4x4 panes. First floor, 2 similar sash windows but 3x3 panes. Rear, N elevation: slated roof continuous from front block over addition. Recessed wall of brick now colourwashed. Ground floor, segment headed doorway with C20 door, upper glazed panel and lower recessed panel, small C20 fixed casement window in older segment headed aperture. Above, first floor sash window with glazing bars, 4x4 panes. E end to Barnard's Yard: shop window, similar to front, adjacent to corner doorway, above, 3x3 paned sash window, 2 similar windows one to each floor in rear addition. INTERIOR: C16 framing seen on first floor, wall plates, jowled posts and some heavy studding. Also thin late C17 replacement studding. 2 ground floor fireplaces, one in main block with late C17 brick and timber lintel (now with some C20 infilling). Rear C19 fireplace (in stack now cut down below roof), segment headed with iron support band. Rear room has good contemporary pink-yellow gault brick floor.

Listing NGR: TL5375538097

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Legacy System number:: 370644
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.