KING EDWARD VI ALMSHOUSES, EAST BLOCK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281264
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: KING EDWARD VI ALMSHOUSES, EAST BLOCK
Statutory Address:: KING EDWARD VI ALMSHOUSES, EAST BLOCK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281264
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: KING EDWARD VI ALMSHOUSES, EAST BLOCK
Statutory Address 1:: KING EDWARD VI ALMSHOUSES, EAST BLOCK

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:: KING EDWARD VI ALMSHOUSES, EAST BLOCK

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 53579 38345

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 ABBEY LANE 669-1/1/6 (North side) 01/11/72 King Edward VI Almshouses, east block

GV II

Almshouses. 1840. Built by local Gibson family to expand accommodation in existing central block (qv). Yellow/pink brick, slate roof. Rectangular plan. 2 storeys. W front elevation: 6 window range, windows have chamfered brick reveals and cast splayed sills and moulded labels, paired lights, wooden frames with hollow chamfers, horizontal sliding sashes, in all 4x4 panes. Doorways in bays 2 and 5, doors have lower panels of chamfered boards, upper glazing, 2x2 panes. Roof concealed by parapet with moulded coping and string. 3 stacks with diagonal shafts, 4 in centre and 2 on outer pair. N and S ends of block diagonally buttressed with finials. S end elevation: decorated with ground and first floor blind windows and upper recess. Gable parapet with string and finials. Plaque between window recesses records construction in 1840 by Gibsons. Rear, E elevation: full length C20 single storey red brick lean-to addition with 2 gabled 2-storey blocks equally spaced along run. Casement windows with glazing bars. Back doors have recessed lower panels and 2x3 upper glazing. (White M: Saffron Walden's History: Saffron Walden: 1991-: 94).

Listing NGR: TL5357938345

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Sources

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White, M, 'Saffron Waldens History' in Saffron Walden 1991-94, ()

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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.