Numbers 65, 65a and 65b and Outbuilding and Garden Walls to Rear is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1951. Former house, shop, flats.

Numbers 65, 65a and 65b and Outbuilding and Garden Walls to Rear

WRENN ID
seventh-string-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 November 1951
Type
Former house, shop, flats
Address
Numbers 65, 65a and 65b and Outbuilding and Garden Walls to Rear, High Street, Saffron Walden, CB10 1AA
OS grid reference
TL 537 382
Coordinates
52.02179, 0.23923
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a former house, now a shop and flats, dating to the mid-16th century, with alterations in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It is timber-framed, now rendered and stuccoed, with plain tile roofs. The building is of an "L" shape, with a three-story front range with a basement and a two-story rear range. The front range has a hipped roof, which slopes down to the rear, with a lower hipped roof forming a central range. The front has a stuccoed parapet with five recessed panels and molded cornices. The second floor features two nine-pane double-hung sash windows on either side of a central, similar window, distinguished by an eared architrave and a triple-stone keystone. The first floor has canted bays with parapets having recessed panels, a molded cornice, and double-hung sash windows with vertical glazing bars, centered by a similar window with a shouldered and eared architrave, a pediment, a triple-stone keystone, and a sill resting on consoles. A 20th-century shop front of hardwood with a large-pane window and fluted pilasters is present. The rear of the main range has a high parapet and molded cornice. Windows are a mix of 20th-century double-hung sashes and paired or single twelve-pane double-hung sashes. A two-story extension features a low-pitched lean-to roof. A semicircular arched opening frames a porch to an old rear door, which has margin glazing with some colored glass, a molded architrave enclosing a rectangular margin-glazed fan light. Two tall stacks of gault brick are on the back wall. A two-story rear range sits at a right angle to the front, with a half-hipped plain tile roof. The first floor is rendered and features one three-light leaded casement and two six-pane double-hung sashes on the north side. A six-raised and fielded panel front door and a wide carport with a lean-to pentice roof are on the front below. The west end of the first floor is now glazed with small-pane French windows and a balcony on painted timber posts. Red brick walls enclose the garden, and an intermediate cross wall has an elliptical arched opening with a wrought-iron gate. The interior of the main range is largely early 19th-century, with a staircase featuring columns over vase balusters and acorn finialled newels. At first-floor level, a semicircular landing arch has molded capitals on square pilasters. The rear range represents the truncated remains of a mid-16th century timber-framed building, now comprising three bays, originally five. It contains one large chamber on the first floor, jowled posts, internal wall bracing, and one four-light diamond mullioned window. The crown-post roof is single jowled, with single down braces to tie-beams, and large tie-beam arch braces. The ground floor structure has largely been replaced by brick, with one molded brick, likely from a corbel table, embedded in the wall. This structure was likely a commercial building.

Local climate

Numbers 65, 65a and 65b and Outbuilding and Garden Walls to Rear 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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