Numbers 65, 65A And 65B And Outbuilding And Garden Walls To Rear

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 HIGH STREET 669-1/1/210 (West side) 28/11/51 Nos.65, 65A AND 65B and outbuilding and garden walls to rear (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET No.65)

GV II

Former house, now shop and flats. Mid C16, C18 and early C19. Timber-framed, rendered and stuccoed with plain tile roofs. Front range of 3 storeys with basement and 2 storey rear range. Of `L' plan form with hipped roofs reducing to rear and with lower hipped roof forming central range. Front has stuccoed parapet with 5 recessed panels and moulded cornices. Second floor has two 9-paned double-hung sash windows either side of a central similar window with eared architrave and triple keystone. The first floor has canted bays with parapets having recessed panels, moulded cornice and double hung sash windows with vertical glazing bars either side of a similar window. This has a shouldered and eared architrave, pediment, triple keystone and sill on consoles. C20 shop front of hardwood with large pane window and fluted pilasters. Rear of the main range has high parapet, rendered and moulded cornice. Windows are a mixture of C20 double hung sashes and paired and single 12 paned double-hung sashes. 2 storey extension with low pitched lean-to roof. Semicircular arched opening frames porch to old rear door which has margin glazing with some coloured glass, moulded architrave enclosing rectangular margin glazed fan light. 2 tall stacks on back wall, one of gault brick. 2 storey rear range, at right angles to frontage with half hipped plain tile roof. This is rendered on first floor with one 3-light leaded casement and two 6-paned double-hung sashes on N flank. Below this is a 6 raised and fielded panelled front door and wide car port with lean-to pentise roof. The W end first floor is now glazed with small pane French windows and balcony on painted timber posts. WALLS: tall red brick walls enclose garden and intermediate cross wall has elliptical arched opening with wrought-iron gate. INTERIOR of main range is now substantially early C19 with well staircase having columns over vase balusters and acorn finialled newels. At first floor level is a semicircular landing arch with moulded capitals on square pilasters. The rear range is the truncated remains of a mid Cl6 timber-framed building, now of 3 bays, but formerly of 5. This has one large chamber on the first floor, jowled posts, internal wall bracing and one 4-light diamond mullioned window. The crown-post roof is single jowled with single down braces to tie-beams and large tie-beam arch braces. On the ground floor, the structure has largely been replaced by brick with one moulded brick, probably half and arch from a corbel table embedded in the wall. This structure was probably a commercial building.

Listing NGR: TL5374038295