9 AND 11, KING STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297766
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: 9 AND 11, KING STREET
Statutory Address:: 9 AND 11, KING STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297766
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: 9 AND 11, KING STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 9 AND 11, KING 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:: 9 AND 11, KING 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 53828 38477

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 KING STREET 669-1/1/246 (South side) 01/11/72 Nos.9 AND 11

GV II

House with shop below. Early C16, c1800 and C19. Timber-framed and plastered and partly exposed, also gault brick. Roof hipped and slated. 3 storey, rectangular plan with small reduction in width on W side at rear. Front, N elevation: ground floor, full width early C20 shop windows, plate glass above tiled dwarf wall, glazed doorway. First and second floor of 2-window range, sashes with glazing bars, moulded architraves, first floor 3x4 panes, second floor 3x3 panes. Second floor plastered, first floor has exposed timber framing of regular studding with 4 blocked frieze window of 3 lights each, roll and hollow moulded mullion bars. These are in a continuous line broken by 2 longer window apertures in which present sash windows are set. Peg evidence shows the former site of low-set sills for 2 windows, originally of tripartite frieze type. Also, cuts for windows intermediate in date between the medieval and those extant. A C19 grey brick stack set back on W side. E side elevation to Market Passage: system on frontage continued, C19 shop once continued whole length of range but now S end windows boarded-in, adjacent fully glazed door. Second floor plastered and blank. First floor, exposed timber framing less complete than on front, two 3x4 paned windows similar to N front, one to S is C20 renewal. Heavy central principal storey post with traces of tension braces each side. N end, jowled post also with tension brace. N of centre, blocked medieval 3-light window with moulded mullions. Rear, S elevation: irregular, C19 brick walling. Ground floor, C19 3-cant bay window with slate roof and sashes, also, segment headed doorway with C19 door of 6 recessed panels. First floor, 3 segment headed windows, one has C19 sashes, other 2 C20 double casements. Second floor, one C19 sash window, glazing bars, 3x3 panes and one small C20 casement. INTERIOR: ground floor rebuilt for shop, all C20. First floor, principal framing timbers exposed, posts, plates and tie-beams. At rear, behind brick wall are jowled end posts and centre post chamfered each side down to high stop suggesting site of window either side. A lamb's tongue chamfer stop on the W post suggests a later phase than the front range and the minor inset in the plan on the W side may denote a building break. Second floor, clearly raised over the original wall head at first floor level with hip rafters at all corners.

Listing NGR: TL5382838477

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Legacy System number:: 370630
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.