61 and 63, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. Villa. 5 related planning applications.
61 and 63, High Street
- WRENN ID
- proud-plaster-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1972
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- 61 and 63, High Street, Saffron Walden, CB10 1AA
- OS grid reference
- TL 537 383
- Coordinates
- 52.02193, 0.23918
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 19th-century "Gothick" villa, designed by William Beck. It is constructed of red Flemish bond brickwork with stone and gault brick dressings, and has a gabled roof covered in decorative clay pantiles with a crested ridge. The building has two storeys with attics, and three large red brick stacks with linked octagonal shafts.
The front elevation, facing High Street, has a projecting gable with carved and cusped bargeboards. This gable features an attic window with a stone surround containing two lights, a pointed relieving arch, and a stone trefoiled spandrel block. Below, the first floor has a similar three-light window with a stone surround. A stone moulded string band runs around the building at first-floor height. The ground floor of the projecting wing has two two-light windows with stone surrounds, pointed arches, and stone cusping in the spandrels. There are iron grilles over a four-light basement window. The recessed section of the front elevation, to the north, has a gabled dormer with decorative bargeboards extending vertically from the front wall. A window is positioned in the attic of the projecting wing, and the first floor has two two-light windows and a single light. The ground floor has a pointed stone arched doorway with a glazed, stone quatrefoil in the spandrel. The contemporary door is boarded and has strap hinges. Six stone steps lead to the doorway, accompanied by a stone balustrade.
A canted stone bay window, with a stone hipped roof, rises from the ground floor, featuring a four-light basement window and iron Gothick railings. A recessed elevation to the north of the front wing contains a single arched window to the first floor, positioned above a pointed arched stone door surround, six stone steps, and a stone balustrade incorporating a bootscraper. A boarded door, with strap hinges, completes this entrance. Single light windows are located in the south flank of the projecting wing. The exposed south flank elevation features a gabled two-light attic window, one two-light window, and a small single light window on the first floor. The ground floor has an entrance door within a stone surround, a flat stone lintel, a rectangular fanlight, and a door with two glazed panels featuring coloured glass. Two tall single light windows are also present.
The rear elevation is similar in character, with two timber-framed gabled corners, a flat-roofed 20th-century rear extension, and a modern conservatory.
The interior retains moulded cornices and a staircase with moulded newel posts and stick balusters.
Local climate
61 and 63, High Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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