Pounce Hall
POUNCE HALL, 3, WALDEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297745
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Pounce Hall
- Statutory Address:
- POUNCE HALL, 3, WALDEN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297745
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Pounce Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- POUNCE HALL, 3, WALDEN ROAD
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.
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:
- POUNCE HALL, 3, WALDEN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sewards End
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 56318 38295
Details
SAFFRON WALDEN
TL53NE WALDEN ROAD, Sewards End 669-1/4/385 (North side) 01/11/72 No.3 Pounce Hall
II
House. Early C17 with later C17 wing and early C18 extension. Timber frame and plaster, peg-tiled roofs, red brick stacks. Plan, L shaped. 2 storey and attics. Front S elevation (1) Tall gabled 2-storey and attic unit to W. (2) central 2 window range, 2 storeys with door and tall C19 rebuilt stack in middle, (3) lower extension block to E. (1) Ground floor, C19 shallow 3-cant bay window, sashes 2x4, 3x2, 2x4 panes, doorway with overlight, door C20 with upper glazing. First floor pair of conjoined sash windows in all, 6x4 panes. Attic sash window 3x3 panes. Weathering board above first floor and attic windows. Large rectangular stack seen behind apex. (2) All 4 windows have early C19 moulded architraves, sashes, 4x4 panes. Simple central doorway, C20 door of 6 panels. Tall rectangular ridge stack above. (3) single 2x2 paned casement window. Rear N elevation: central unit (2) has rear out-shut with catslide roof, 2 sky-lights and broad ramped lead roofed dormer window with 2-light casement. Rear wall of brick, central C20 boarded door, C20 3-light casement window to W. Wing to W (1) has large central stack (C19 rebuild) with adjacent stair tower rising to attic. Tower integrated into lower roofs with first floor and attic windows 2x2 paned casement and 4x2 paned sliding sash respectively. Wing has single attic sash window 3x2 panes. E end unit (3) has flat roofed rear extension, blank with corrugated plastic roof. N end elevation: wing has 3 ground floor and 2 first floor C20 3-light casement windows 6x5 panes. E end elevation: addition (3) has protruding purlins and wall plates and attic sliding sash window 2x2 panes. INTERIOR: central early C17 unit (2) of 2 cells with central chimney bay, back-to-back timber lintelled fireplaces, bread oven to rear. Jowled posts, primary bracing, bladed scarf joints in wall plates, lamb's tongue chamfer stops on joists. Wing (1) has butt side purlin roof. Newel stair in tower of plain robust form. Addition (3) of slender C18 framing. Rear lean-to has good brick floor. Remains of basket pargetting remain at E end of central block now obscured by C18 additions.
Listing NGR: TL5631838295
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 370732
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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