24, CHURCH STREET

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SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CHURCH STREET 669-1/1/109 (North side) 28/11/51 No.24

GV II

Shop and house on corner site with Museum Street. C15, late C16 rear addition, early C19 refronting and C20 rear addition. Timber-framed and plastered, peg and clay tiled roof. 2 storeys and partial attic. Plan irregular rectangle of early L form with substantial infilling phases in inner internal angle and slight extension to N. S elevation, to Church Street: to W, 2-window range, all windows sashes with glazing bars, 4x4 panes, to E, first floor, single C19 window similar to street range, C19 gable barge-boards. Ground floor, full width C20 3-cant bay shop window set under old jetty with remnants of C19 shop cornice showing but cut away angle shafts, glazing bars, 4x4, 6x4, 4x4 panes. E end, boxed jetty projects. E elevation, to Museum Street: long jettied run, cranked at three-quarters length round street curve. Boxed jetty but 2 principal binding joists project and building break seen in roof line at cranked corner. Ground floor, S-N, end of C20 shop window, C19 6 flush panel beaded door with adjacent 4x4 paned sash window. Second similar C19 door with adjacent C20 3-light casement window with rectangular leaded panes. Similar 2-light window towards N end. First floor, central C20 top-opening 2-light casement window. Blocked window at N and S ends with early C19 moulded architraves but glazing bars and panes painted in. C18 stack through roof pitch S of centre. Rear N elevation: irregular early C19 and C20 additions. Early L plan seen but whole second 2-storey parallel range added to Church Street block in early C19 with large stack in junction valley. Further C20 flat roofed ground floor addition with 2-storeyed narrow unit added to W wall of Museum Street range. 2 C20 further ground floor, flat roofed extensions to N end gable wall. Windows irregular, one early C19 sash window in contemporary addition, also 2 windows of same date in first floor and attic of N end wall of E block, are 4x2 paned sliding sash and 2x2 panes casement respectively. Other windows all C20 casements, some with glazing bars, one with leaded panes. 2 C20 plain doors, C20 back door with upper glazing, glazing bars, 2x3 panes, lower panel. INTERIOR: principal framing of long jettied range to Museum Street has a dragon beam to turn the jetty corner to Church Street with slender joists. Jetty of main Museum Street run has late C16 diminished haunched soffit tenons with lamb's tongue chamfer stops. Building break seen from street is not apparent in joists. Junction of Church and Market Street ranges has tension braced studding. Also, here and at S end of Market Street range are 3 long splayed and under-squinted scarf joints approx 0.90m long in wall plates. Heavy studding with rear tension brace also seen on first floor at W end in Church Street. Large fireplace opening on ground floor of stack in C19 addition. Cellars run below all units, mainly C18 or early C19 brickwork with pink and yellow brick flooring. To rear of Church Street, cellar wall of early C17 small bricks containing 2 contemporary arched recesses. Stack seen on ground floor at N end of Museum Street range of late C17 brickwork now has attached wooden surround, restored but containing some early C17 decorated members. The early date (C14) implied by the splayed scarf joints in the wallplates may indicate an early origin, followed by rebuilding in the later C16, hence the lack of break in floor joisting of that time at an obvious building break seen in Museum Street. A similar splayed scarf joint occurs in the Sun Inn complex (qv) across the road which is of C14 build.

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