13, Gold Street

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 GOLD STREET 669-1/1/160 (East side) 28/11/51 No.13

GV II

Formerly known as: Melbourne House GOLD STREET. Shop. C16, refronted and enlarged in early C19 with C20 addition. Timber-framed and plastered, also brick, peg and C20 tile roofs. Skewed parallelogram plan. 2 storeys. Front W elevation: 2 bays with central doorway, jettied at N end but with original bracket. C19 cornice and fascia board covering each end but centre of original moulded bressumer exposed with 2 decorated registers, upper of leaves with central initials, IF . AH, lower register of undulating flower and stem motif. Early C19 deep plinth and doorway approached by steps. Doorcase has consoles and panelled reveals. C20 door with upper glazing, 2x3 panes. Adjacent to N, large C19 jetty bracket. 2 canted symmetrical bay windows on high bases, sashes with glazing bars, 2x4, 3x4, 2x4 panes. First floor, 2 horned sash windows (over bays below), glazing bars, 3x4 panes. Roof hipped at N end with red brick stack on end wall, below, C20 flat roofed ground floor porch approached by steps. Fully glazed door 3x5 panes and side lights each 1x5 panes. Second stack at S end ridge. Rear E elevation: 2 gabled units, street range behind. Outer wall-plate ends exposed. N unit taller with steeper roof pitch and gable-end external stack, colourwashed but lower section of small bricks in English bond with 2 original recessed inscribed plaques, IHA and 1565. Upper stack in C19/20 brickwork. Mid rail and corner post exposed over lower rendered brickwork. C20 door with upper glazed panel. First floor framed and plastered with double casement window glazing bars. 4x2 panes. Unit to S, waney edged rail exposed with hay loft door sill remaining over. Ground floor plain C20 door with upper glazed panel, 2x2 paned fixed window each side, one with lower boarding. First floor, long 3-light casement window with glazing bars, 9x3 panes. N side elevation: 2 units, street block and rear wing with skewed axes. Street block has hipped roof to front, stepped gable at rear. Street jetty inner bressumer plate exposed. Ground floor E end, C19 doorway, door has upper glazing, bars arranged in off-set fret pattern, bead moulded panelling below. C20 porch, 2-light casement window with glazing bars, 4x3 panes. Simple C20 canopy extends over doorway from porch. First floor, sliding sash window with moulded architrave, glazing bars, 4x2 panes. Rear wing, ground floor, sliding sash window 4x3 panes, first floor, 2 C20 casement windows, 1 and 2-lights. S end elevation: street range, ground floor rendered, first floor in C20 red brick in English bond. Stack at ridge. Framing on W corner now boxed. Rear wing rendered, C20 tiles. C20 plain door, 2 first floor casement windows 1 and 2-light. INTERIOR: framing mostly obscured but rear framing of street range shows mullion mortices and shutter groove for window predating C19 rear stable wing when plot must have been a yard.

Listing NGR: TL5385238348