57, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1951. Former house, offices.

57, High Street

WRENN ID
seventh-outpost-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 November 1951
Type
Former house, offices
Address
57, High Street, Saffron Walden, CB10 1AA
OS grid reference
TL 537 383
Coordinates
52.02207, 0.23912
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 57 High Street is a former house that has been converted into offices. It dates from the 18th century and early 19th century. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a gabled plain tile roof. It stands two storeys high, with attics and a cellar.

The front elevation features two full-height canted bay windows, which have double-hung sashes with a single central vertical glazing bar. On the first floor, there is a similar central double-hung sash window. The ground floor includes a central early 19th-century painted timber doorcase, which has a flat hood supported by Doric capitals and a frieze decorated with roundels. There are five rendered steps leading up to the entrance, which is flanked by swept wrought-iron handrails and bootscrapers. The door itself consists of six raised and fielded panels and provides access to the yard on the south end.

At the rear, there is a two-storey extension with a low-pitched slate roof and a painted brick wall. This section features two substantial rear wall stacks, a gabled stair housing, one two-light casement dormer, and a concrete tiled single-storey lean-to. The right-hand bay of the building appears to be older and shows some exposed framing on a partition, which includes interrupted studs and a straight brace.

Local climate

57, High 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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