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SAFFRON WALDEN TL5338 CASTLE STREET
669-1/1/63 (North side)
28/11/51 No.27
St Vincets
(Formerly Listed as:
CASTLE STREET
No.27) GV II House. C17 with substantial reworking in both early and later
C20. Timber-framed and plastered, brick, peg-tiled roof.
Rectangular plan of street range and 2 conjoined gabled rear
units. 2 storeys and cellar. S front elevation: early C20 red
brick, hipped roof. All features C20. Ground floor, E-W,
wooden door frame with 4-centred arched head, raised batten
decoration on frame, door boarded with battens, two 3-light
wooden mullioned and transomed windows with rectangular leaded
lights. First floor, E-W, small 3-cant oriel with coved
corbel, leaded hipped roof, leaded lights, two 3-light
casement windows in house style with leaded lights. 2 stacks
at side behind roof apex. Rear, N elevation: twin gables,
rendered, ground floor, pantiled lean-to under E gable. All
features C20. Ground floor, E-W, doorway with 2-leaf door,
upper glazing and lower panel, single light casement window,
door with flat hood on brackets, door has upper glazing. First
floor, E-W, windows casements, one 3-light, one single light,
one 2-light. W side elevation: plastered with traces of basket
pattern pargetting. Timber sill on red brick footing, 2 C20
2-light casement windows, one first floor C20 single-light
casement.
INTERIOR: considerable rebuilt but rear E range has early C17
binding joist with lamb's tongue chamfer stops. Stack at
junction with street unit has some thin bricks, probably C17
but much rebuilt in C18 with fireplaces having curved rear
walling. Cellar simply cut into chalk.
Listing NGR: TL5365338662
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