46 AND 48, CASTLE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297775
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: 46 AND 48, CASTLE STREET
Statutory Address:: 46 AND 48, CASTLE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297775
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: 46 AND 48, CASTLE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 46 AND 48, CASTLE 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:: 46 AND 48, CASTLE 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 53850 38749

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CASTLE STREET 669-1/1/74 (South side) Nos.46 AND 48

II

2 houses. C16, early C19 rear additions, C20 refronting and refurbishment. Timber framing, plastered and brick, peg and clay tile roof, also slate. U shaped plan. 3 storeys and cellars. N front elevation: 3 bayed red brick frontage, peg-tiled roof, gable end stacks, c1946, also altered c1986 to appear as a single house with central street door which, however, leads to open pasageway between units. Doorway has cornice hood and overlight, door of 6 panels, concrete lintel over door extra wide to accommodate 2 doorways of 1946 build. Similar lintels over windows, were sashes, now casements with glazing bars, ground and first floor, cross form 4x4 panes, second floor 2-light 4x3 panes, 2 cellar lights blocked in No.46. Rear S elevation: timber-framed and plastered with plain C20 casement window on first and second floor to No.46, 3-light 6 paned, 2-light 4 paned, respectively. Ground floor central plain passageway with early C20 horizontal bead moulded boarding. Additions, to W, (No.46) 2 mono-pitch early C19 slated lean-tos. C20 door with upper glazing, 2x3 panes, to E (No.48), 2 lean-tos at right angles, C19 originally but C20 refurbished with C20 pargetting and clay tiled. All details C20. E side, door with upper glazing 3x3 panes, flanking sash windows 3x4 and 2x3 panes. S end, boarded `stable' door and bay window of double sashes. INTERIOR: No.46. Outer timber framing of `high' end of small medieval house continuing from Nos 44 and 42 (qv). Jowled posts, wall plates, stud braced rear wall and wattle grooves, mortice for axial floor joist, wall plate under first floor window. No.48. Timber framing of small open hall bay similar height to No.46 but probably associated with No.50 (qv). E end corner posts and partition frame with mid rail mortices for front and back wall remain. Parts of central open truss survive. Front principal post with deep rising mortice for brace to removed tie-beam and rear wall plate with tie-beam dovetail joint. remains. Also E end frame common with No.50 has pattern of peg holes probably for a C17 weaving (warping) frame.

Listing NGR: TL5385038749

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Legacy System number:: 370453
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.