26, KING STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280255
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: 26, KING STREET
Statutory Address:: 26, KING STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280255
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: 26, KING STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 26, KING 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:: 26, KING 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 53750 38483

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 KING STREET 669-1/1/253 (North side) 28/11/51 No.26 (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET (North side) Nos.22 AND 26 (Even))

GV II

House and shop. Early C16 and C19. Timber framing and brick, slate and peg-tiled roofs, long narrow plan running back from street. 3 storeys and cellars. Front S elevation: C19 brick, painted, first and second floor projecting, 2 window range, moulded stucco architraves, first floor with pediments and sash windows, roof set well back behind parapet. Ground floor, C20 shop with C19 end pilasters and fascia board, shop front all of plate glass. E, side elevation: early C16 carriageway to street (qv), and, behind, long range along alleyway with timber framing of close studding, partly surviving, particularly above a middle rail, and partly replaced by brick. Peg frequency suggests the former existence of a medieval shop immediately N of the carriageway. Windows scattered, ground floor, one C19 sliding sash, 4x2 panes, one C20 casement, one 3-light window, was sliding, glazing bars, 12x3 panes. First floor, C20 casement with glazing bars, 3x4 panes and one simple narrow window 1x3 panes. Some of the wall has C20 pargetting, especially towards rear. INTERIOR: rebuilt. This long range, together with the adjacent carriageway and Nos 20 and 20A (qv) has the shape of a typical large medieval inn.

Listing NGR: TL5375038483

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Legacy System number:: 370637
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.