18 And 20, King Street

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 KING STREET 669-1/1/250 (North side) 01/11/72 Nos.18 AND 20

GV II

House with ground floor shops. C18 and probably earlier with C20 additions. Timber-framed and plastered, red brick, C20 clay tiled roof. U shaped plan. 2 storeys. Front S elevation: 4 window range, 2 flush bays, alternating with 2 canted bays to first and second floors. Ground floor, 2 shops, all now of C20 work, plate glass windows and doors. All first and second floor windows sashes with glazing bars to upper sashes, lower sash in each window plain. First floor flush windows have wooden pediments over frieze, upper sashes 3x2 panes. Second floor windows similar but cornice and pulvinated frieze. Bay windows, first and second floor similar with central arched glazing with radial glazing bars, side cants, upper sashes 2x2 panes, bay cants tile-hung between windows. Central ridge stack. Rear N elevation: C20 rendered. Street range has 4 second floor C20 2-light casement windows. Plain flat roofed C20 brick extension at E and W ends with central link between, above, C20 plain casement windows. RCHM states building said to be dated 1633.

Listing NGR: TL5377638484