TRINITY HOUSE

TRINITY HOUSE, 2, CASTLE STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281109
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: TRINITY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: TRINITY HOUSE, 2, CASTLE STREET

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Date:: 2005-08-11
Reference:: IOE01/14696/31
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281109
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: TRINITY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: TRINITY HOUSE, 2, CASTLE 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:: TRINITY HOUSE, 2, CASTLE 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 53668 38641

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CASTLE STREET 669-1/1/48 (South side) 01/11/72 No.2 Trinity House

GV II

House. c1700. Timber-framed, refronted in gault brick with scored pointing, and enlarged c1840, small C20 additions and minor internal alteration. Timber framing plastered, red brick stacks, slate roof. Plan principally rectangular with ground floor continuous rear addition with further similar addition to S on W end. 3 storeys. Front, N elevation: 3 bays having brick pilasters with strings defining attic storey. Pilasters have upper recessed panels, one now replaced by C20 2x3 paned casement window. Hipped roof with pair of stacks on each E and W end wall. Central doorway, restrained flat cornice hood, simple frieze, capitals and bases, overlight, door has 6 recessed panels all windows have stuccoed voussoirs, sashes with glazing bars, ground floor, 5x4 panes, first floor 3x4 panes, second attic floor 3x3 panes. Cellar grating in E bay. Rear, S elevation: plastered framing, E end breaks forward on centre line. Ground floor, flat, lead-roofed addition, W-E, French window, 2-leaf, 4x5 panes, fully glazed door, 2x5 panes with overlight, sash window with glazing bars, 4x4 panes, second brick addition at E end. W face, French window similar to other and 3-light C20 casement window. First floor, E and W outer window sashes with moulded architraves, 4x4 panes, inserted central 4-centre arched plain casement window. Second storey, sash window two 3x3 panes with moulded architraves, one central, 3x4, also, small fixed C20 casement window E of centre. E end elevation: gault brick return wall with pilasters from street, plastered timber framing at S end, pair of stacks, conjoined by red brickwork between. Lower wall now rendered but several phases evident. W end elevation: similar to E end but masked by adjoining property. INTERIOR: essentially plain. The break in the rear wall and E end irregularity suggests more than one phase of alteration to the house plan and elevations.

Listing NGR: TL5366838641

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Legacy System number:: 370427
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.