Garden House To Rear Of Numbers 14, 16 And 18

The Garden House, located in the southeast corner of the garden behind numbers 14, 16, and 18 Church Street in Saffron Walden, is a building from the 17th century that was converted into a garden house in the 19th century, with some restoration in the 20th century. It features a timber frame, is plastered, and has a peg-tiled roof. The structure has a square plan measuring 4 meters on each side, consisting of a ground floor and an attic.

On the north elevation, the ground floor and roof gable are separated by a deep plastered cove, which is adorned with upper and lower moulded cornices and a string course, supported at the corner by a wooden pillar. The ground floor includes a central segment-headed opening flanked by 20th-century trellis work, a plain boarded doorway on the east side, and a 19th-century cast-iron casement window with octagonal panes. Above, the gable features 20th-century fan-combed pargetting and a reused 19th-century iron casement window with leaded panes set horizontally, along with a plain two-light fixed window below.

The west side elevation has a broad ground floor segment-headed opening, with the cove continuing around from the north end. Inside, the ground floor room is painted with an early 20th-century inscription and heraldry. The attic reveals some early 17th-century framing, including a stop-chamfered wall plate and a clasped side purlin roof, which has undergone later rebuilding and repair. The building's shape, with its prominent gable and deep cove, is reminiscent of designs by John Nash, particularly similar to those seen at Blaise Hamlet in Bristol from 1811.