5 And 7, Market Hill

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 MARKET HILL 669-1/1/272 (West side) 01/11/72 Nos.5 AND 7 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET HILL Nos.5A AND 5) (Formerly Listed as: MARKET HILL No.7)

GV II

2 houses and shops, now business premises (No.5A amalgamated). Mid C16, early C19, rebuilding, C20 amalgamation and refurbishment. Timber framing, gault brick, clay tile and slate roofs. T shaped plan. 3 storeys. Front E elevation: 2 early C19 brick houses, each of 2 window range, shared stack and another at N end, brick string between first and second floor of S unit, string between ground and first floor in N unit. Windows, first floor sashes with glazing bars, 3x4 panes, second floor 3x3 panes. S unit has plain carriageway and C19 shop completely renewed in C20, fluted pilasters with consoles, window with glazing bars, 8x5 panes. Fielded panel door. N unit, 2 round headed recessed windows, sashes, 3x4 panes. Rear W elevation: all restored in C20. S end of street range, first and second floor C20 sash windows 3x4 panes, ground floor door of 6 fielded panels. Gambrel roofed, one and a half storey, framed wing to W, clay tiles, red brick stack at E and W ends. Ground floor, S side, 2 casement windows with glazing bars 4x2 and 5x2 panes. W end first floor, 2x2 paned casement. N side elevation: jettied with heavy joists. To W, C20 2-storey block, L plan cranked to N, ground floor rendered, first floor weatherboarded, all casement windows with glazing bars, doorway at junction with one and a half storey unit. Door of 6 fielded panels with lean-to clay-tiled porch. INTERIOR: mainly reworked in C20 but rear range jettied to N, of 3 bays, flat laid joists of mid C16 type with diminished haunched soffit tenons. A photograph taken in 1878 retained within the premises shows the building when it was the Green Dragon public house.

Listing NGR: TL5383238554