CLOPTONS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297793
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: CLOPTONS
Statutory Address:: CLOPTONS

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Date:: 2007-08-12
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297793
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: CLOPTONS
Statutory Address 1:: CLOPTONS

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:: CLOPTONS

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 55790 41497

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL54SE LITTLE WALDEN 669-1/6/362 Cloptons 28/11/51

II

House. 1643, C19 and C20 additions. Timber-framed, plastered, red brick, peg and clay tile roof. Long L plan of principal range and lean-to. 2 storeys and attic. S elevation: original frontage, 4 window range, uneven bays, large stack towards E end with 4 `concertina' shafts over ovolo moulded brickwork cornice, second minor ridge stack at W end. All windows C20 3-light casements with glazing bars, ground floor 6x4 panes, first floor 6x3 panes. 3 gabled dormer windows, casements 4x3 panes. Ground floor C20 doorway in line with main stack, door with upper glazing. N elevation: range has C19 red brick lean-to with catslide roof at W end. To E, adjacent C20 French window as a porch with lean-to peg-tiled roof. To N, long C20 conservatory with spur to NE at E end. Above conservatory, 2 casement windows below house eaves. W end elevation: principal gable end bricked, C17 on ground floor, C18 and C19 above. C19 apex stack has central fillet. Lean-to to N rendered framing with lower brickwork and doorway, C20 door of 6 fielded panels, fixed paned casement window each side. C20 brick open sided porch, gabled roof. E end elevation: original barge-boards and flying collar on projecting horns. Boards have divided date 16 - 43. 3 cant bay window through both storeys, plastered corbel below. C20 casement, 1:2:1. INTERIOR: not inspected but big ground floor timber lintelled fireplace to W, small brick-arched fireplace to E. The building is a large 3-celled lobby-entrance house with, E-W, parlour, hall, service room. Service end may have been heated from the beginning as a kitchen end.

Listing NGR: TL5579041497

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Legacy System number:: 370344
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.