9 And 11, Park Lane

9 and 11 Park Lane are two houses located in Saffron Walden, primarily dating from around 1700, but possibly originating from the 17th century. The buildings are timber-framed and plastered, with a peg-tiled roof and a red brick stack. They have an L-shaped plan and are two storeys high.

The north elevation features a two-window range with a shared stack, and the doorways are positioned adjacent to the outer sides of the windows. This grouping is offset towards the eastern end of the block, with a clear building break and a blank western end. There are traces of fan-combed panelled pargetting beneath a color wash. The doorcases are from the 19th century, with flat hoods that are bead-moulded, and the doors consist of six bead-moulded flush panels. The ground floor windows are 19th-century two-light casements with glazing bars, arranged in a 4x3 pane configuration. The first-floor windows are early 18th-century two-light casements with leaded panes and moulded architraves.

On the eastern end elevation, there is a ground floor peg-tiled lean-to and a house end gable, with a sliding sash window on the first floor featuring 4x3 panes. A pair of roof purlins is exposed above. The western end elevation includes a 17th-century ground floor rectangular bay window under an old pentice roof, with ovolo moulded window framing and lights arranged in a 1:5:1 pattern, later fitted with two-paned casements. Adjacent to this is a doorway with a moulded architrave and a simple cornice hood, leading to a 20th-century door. On the first floor, there is one 19th-century three-light window with 3x2 panes and one 20th-century casement window with 2x2 panes. Three purlins are visible in each roof pitch, along with exposed wall plates. At the rear, there is a slated ground floor lean-to with a 20th-century casement window. The building break on the house front and the triple purlins on the gable at the western end indicate that there have been multiple phases of construction.