5 AND 7, MARKET HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297731
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: 5 AND 7, MARKET HILL
Statutory Address:: 5 AND 7, MARKET HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297731
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: 5 AND 7, MARKET HILL
Statutory Address 1:: 5 AND 7, 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:: 5 AND 7, MARKET HILL

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 53832 38554

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 MARKET HILL 669-1/1/272 (West side) 01/11/72 Nos.5 AND 7 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET HILL Nos.5A AND 5) (Formerly Listed as: MARKET HILL No.7)

GV II

2 houses and shops, now business premises (No.5A amalgamated). Mid C16, early C19, rebuilding, C20 amalgamation and refurbishment. Timber framing, gault brick, clay tile and slate roofs. T shaped plan. 3 storeys. Front E elevation: 2 early C19 brick houses, each of 2 window range, shared stack and another at N end, brick string between first and second floor of S unit, string between ground and first floor in N unit. Windows, first floor sashes with glazing bars, 3x4 panes, second floor 3x3 panes. S unit has plain carriageway and C19 shop completely renewed in C20, fluted pilasters with consoles, window with glazing bars, 8x5 panes. Fielded panel door. N unit, 2 round headed recessed windows, sashes, 3x4 panes. Rear W elevation: all restored in C20. S end of street range, first and second floor C20 sash windows 3x4 panes, ground floor door of 6 fielded panels. Gambrel roofed, one and a half storey, framed wing to W, clay tiles, red brick stack at E and W ends. Ground floor, S side, 2 casement windows with glazing bars 4x2 and 5x2 panes. W end first floor, 2x2 paned casement. N side elevation: jettied with heavy joists. To W, C20 2-storey block, L plan cranked to N, ground floor rendered, first floor weatherboarded, all casement windows with glazing bars, doorway at junction with one and a half storey unit. Door of 6 fielded panels with lean-to clay-tiled porch. INTERIOR: mainly reworked in C20 but rear range jettied to N, of 3 bays, flat laid joists of mid C16 type with diminished haunched soffit tenons. A photograph taken in 1878 retained within the premises shows the building when it was the Green Dragon public house.

Listing NGR: TL5383238554

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Legacy System number:: 370657
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.