42, 44 AND 46, GOLD STREET

Three houses, located on Gold Street, Saffron Walden, were built in the late 17th century and subsequently rebuilt and refenestrated in the 19th century. The construction is timber-framed and plastered with brick, covered by a peg-tiled roof. The houses are rectangular in shape, with two storeys and an attic.

The east-facing front elevation has three windows and a three-door range. A 19th-century facade gable is located at the north end, featuring shaped bargeboards, and there are two ridge stacks. The ground floor is brick and rendered. Three 19th-century sash windows are present, alongside doors with four flush bead-moulded panels. The first floor is timber-framed and rendered, with three flush two-light casement windows, each with a central stile and 2x3 panes of glazing bars. A similar window is found in the attic gable, but with 2x2 panes.

The rear west-facing elevation is similar to the front, with brickwork below and timber framing above, and the same pattern of fenestration. There is no rear gable at the north end. A drawing of Gold Street from 1843, by T.C. Diblin, depicts the block without a facade gable but with a high carriageway in the same bay.