4, Castle Street

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CASTLE STREET 669-1/1/49 (South side) 28/11/51 No.4 (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE STREET Nos.4 AND 6)

GV II

House, formerly house and shop (with No.6 now included). C16 core, C17 rebuilding and extension, C20 rear addition and refurbishment. Timber framing, plastered and later brick, peg-tiled roofs. 2 storeys. Front N elevation: uneven 3 window and 2 door range. Ground floor, E-W, C20 3-light casement window, 6x3 panes replacing shop window, old shop door, 4 recessed panels, now blocked. Adjacent C19 house door under simple hood shared with shop door, 4 flush panels, common steps up. Two 3-light sliding sash windows with moulded architraves, 6x3 panes. First floor, E-W, casement windows, one 3-light 3x2 panes, one 2-light 4x2 panes, one 4-light 4x2 panes. Wall has restored plain panel pargetting. Stack behind roof apex at W end. Rear S elevation: principal street range with long wing on E end of 3 progressively lower units and internal C20 lean-to. Principal range, ground floor, casement windows, one single light 3x4 panes, one 3-light 3x2 panes one 2-light 2x2 panes, also high narrow plain casement at E end. E wing, one higher and one lower gabled unit showing wall plate and purlins with trapping collar. Weatherboarded shed as lean-to on S end, single storey lean-to on W side in red brick with rendered half gable, 4x4 paned casement window below. W side elevation: principal gable end, C20 panel pargetted. Wing behind, to S, N-S, C20 brick lean-to with catslide roof from C17 addition, C20 3-light casement window, 6x4 panes and fully glazed door, 3x5 panes. Set back, C17 unit continues ground floor brick, plastered framing above with C20 fully glazed door and simple gabled porch with adjacent 2-light window 2x2 and 1x2 panes. First floor, sliding sash window 4x3 panes and 2-light casement 4x3 panes. To S, lower single storey brick and timber-framed unit with C20 boarded door and small window of three 2x2 paned casements. Simple 3-light fixed window above door. Weatherboarded lean-to shed. E end elevation: to side lane, rendered but with panel of brickwork, 2x2 paned casement window above. INTERIOR: considerably rebuilt but principal framing partly exposed. Central cambered C16 tie-beam with associated joints for arched braces adjacent to rebuilt stack partly of narrow C17 bricks. Ground floor fireplace still retains original timber lintel with compass inscribed protection symbol of 6 petals in circle at N end. W end bay ceiling joists flat laid with centre tenons. Jowls of storey posts at rear indicate a former C16 wing at right angles. Ceiling hook also survives from later period for hinged shutter to street window. W end bay also has free standing triangular plan stack with segment arched head fireplace from earlier room. C17 E wing units have trapped side purlin roofs. Cellar recorded in previous listing now filled in.

Listing NGR: TL5368638650