Garden House To Rear Of Numbers 14, 16 And 18

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 669-1/1/104

CHURCH STREET (North side) Garden House to rear of Nos.14, 16 and 18

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Garden house set in SE corner of garden to Nos 14, 16 and 18 (qv). C17 shell with C19 conversion to garden house, some C20 restoration. Timber-framed, plastered, peg-tiled roof. 4m square plan, ground floor and roof attic. N elevation: ground floor and roof gable divided by deep plastered cove with upper and lower moulded cornice and string, wooden pillar supporting corner. Ground floor has central segment headed opening with C20 trellis work each side, plain boarded doorway on E side with adjacent C19 cast-iron casement window, octagonal panes. Gable above has C20 fan-combed pargetting with re-used C19 iron casement window of leaded panes set horizontally and plain 2-light fixed window below. W side elevation: broad ground floor segment headed opening, cove continued round from N end. INTERIOR: ground floor room painted with early C20 inscription and heraldry. Attic reveals some early C17 framing with stop chamfered wall plate, clasped side purlin roof with later rebuilding and repair. The shape of the building with prominent gable on deep cove is very similar to that seen at Blaise Hamlet, Bristol, 1811, by John Nash.

Listing NGR: TL5378038590