Library, Former Corn Exchange
LIBRARY, FORMER CORN EXCHANGE, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297733
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Library, Former Corn Exchange
- Statutory Address:
- LIBRARY, FORMER CORN EXCHANGE, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297733
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Library, Former Corn Exchange
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIBRARY, FORMER CORN EXCHANGE, MARKET PLACE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LIBRARY, FORMER CORN EXCHANGE, MARKET PLACE
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 53842 38515
Details
SAFFRON WALDEN
TL5338 MARKET PLACE 669-1/1/286 (West side) 27/02/69 Library, former Corn Exchange (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE Corn Exchange)
GV II
Corn exchange now public library. c1847, rebuilt internally in C20 as library. Said to be by R Tress. Rendered brickwork with banded ashlar lining, slate roof now of broad mansard form behind original balustraded parapet. Classical style. Rectangular plan. Single storey. E front elevation: central elaborate portico with symmetrical bay each side as a panel closed by paired pilasters and a side doorway with open pediment, consoles and acroteria, semicircular overlight, doors have 2 lower fielded panels and one upper, now glazed. Central portico comprises a round headed doorway with paired columns set forward each side with entablature similarly breaking forward and decorated with paired wreaths. Parapet over has paired acroteria. Clock tower rises above on plinth with volute scrolled diagonal buttresses with acroteria clasping a louvred, triple-arcaded opening, each round arch head decorated with a scallop shell. Above, clock face with diagonal consoles, and surmounting, reeded cylindrical stage having cornice, dome and weather-vane. The doorway has a cast-iron cresting set within the arched head, central scrolls with lyre shape. S end of elevation curved round with arched rustication to S elevation to King Street: 9 bays with dividing pilasters, each decorated by a panel and linked cornucopia on the frieze, tall window to each bay with raised architrave having fleur-de-lys cresting. C20 roof has 5 ramped dormer lights with all round glazing. INTERIOR rebuilt with only C20 work now visible. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Ratcliffe E: Essex: London: 1965-: 334).
Listing NGR: TL5384238515
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 370671
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Essex, (1965), 334
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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