65, 67 and 69, Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1951. House.

65, 67 and 69, Castle Street

WRENN ID
peeling-stronghold-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 November 1951
Type
House
Address
65, 67 and 69, Castle Street, Saffron Walden
OS grid reference
TL 537 387
Coordinates
52.02564, 0.23954
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A row of three houses, originally one, dating to the 17th century, with additions in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building has a timber-framed and plastered exterior, along with brickwork, and a peg and clay tiled roof. The original structure formed an L-shape, with later additions filling the internal angle.

The front elevation has a three-window and two-door arrangement. The ground floor features a 2-light casement window, a 2-pane door with upper glazing, a double-hung casement window with 4x3 panes, another 2-pane door set in brick infilling, a 2-light casement, a 3-light casement, and a 6-pane door, with the upper panels now glazed. The first floor has two 2-light casement windows, one 3-light casement with 3x2 panes, all overlooking the street. Brick stacks, one pink and one red, are visible.

The rear, north-facing elevation includes a principal range to the east and the gable end of a wing on the west, with a visible side purlin. A brick buttress is present on the east side. A 20th-century single-story addition with a red brick facade and a single casement window is also present. A 19th-century two-story gable addition, parallel to the street range, has a slate roof and prominent brick stacks at each end. 19th-century windows and doors have segment-headed tops. A sash window, a cellar window with a segment-headed frame, an inserted doorway, a 3x3 pane door with glazed upper panels, and a large segment-headed aperture (now partly blocked) are also present. Upper floors feature two sash windows with 4x4 panes and a single casement window.

The east end elevation has blank gable ends. The west end has an irregular arrangement of windows and a 20th-century single-story addition.

Inside number 65, original features are mostly obscured. Visible elements include principal bridging joists with 17th-century lambs' tongue stops, an elm roof with trapped side purlins, and Roman numeral carpenters' marks.

Local climate

65, 67 and 69, Castle Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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