1, 3A AND 3B, MARKET HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1206455
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: 1, 3A AND 3B, MARKET HILL
Statutory Address:: 1, 3A AND 3B, MARKET HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1206455
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: 1, 3A AND 3B, MARKET HILL
Statutory Address 1:: 1, 3A AND 3B, MARKET HILL

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:: 1, 3A AND 3B, MARKET HILL

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County:: Essex
District:: Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:: Saffron Walden
National Grid Reference:: TL 53842 38525

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 MARKET HILL 669-1/1/270 (West side) 01/11/72 Nos.1, 3A AND 3B (Formerly Listed as: MARKET HILL Nos.1 AND 3A)

GV II

Shops with offices. Early C17 with early C19 rebuilding of frontage. Timber-framed and plastered, stuccoed brick, slate and clay tiled roof, red brick stacks. Plan of curved T. 2 storeys. Front E elevation: long cranked frontage, 6 bays, S end terminates in quadrant to Library in Market Place (qv), eaves have paired modillions, stucco cornice with paired consoles between storeys with lower pilasters. Ground floor, 2 C19 shop fronts, now refurbished in C20 with plate glass. No.1 doorway retains overlight. First floor, N-S, 2 C19 plain sash windows, 4 sash windows with glazing bars, 3x4 panes. Stack at N end and behind ridge towards S. Rear W elevation: timber-framed and plastered, cross gabled wing to W with single storey timber-framed and red brick, slated ground floor W extension. C20 single storeyed red brick rear slated shop extension in angle of C17 wing and street range. Also, N end 2-storey brick lean-to. C17 wing, S gable C19 shaped barge-boards and first floor sash window with moulded architrave,glazing bars, 4x4 panes. Window in similar position on N and W gables, sash, 3x4 panes and sliding sash 4x3 panes respectively. Fan pargetting on N side of C17 wing and W addition. Addition also has 2-leaf carriageway door and adjacent window of 2 lights. Passageway now cut through junction of units with 3 adjacent ground floor C20 single light casement windows in C17 unit. N end lean-to. N side, first floor C19 round headed fixed window with stained and ground glass margin glazing, below, 5 panel C19 door, upper panels glazed. W side, first floor 2-light sliding sash window 4x3 panes. INTERIOR: ground floor of No.3A, early C19 triple sash bay window set below rear gable with shaped barge-boards, all originally exterior.

Listing NGR: TL5384238525

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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.