Dance School, Former Maltings

TL5338 669-1/1/231

SAFFRON WALDEN

HIGH STREET (East side) Dance School, former maltings

GV II

Dance school, former maltings in the Central Arcade. Mid C19. Yellow, Flemish bond gault brickwork with gabled slate roof. 3 low storeys with single storey part to W with entrance. Second floor has 5 rectangular openings with horizontal ventilator strips. First floor has five 2-light casement windows with segmental arched heads and a double-hung sash window with 16 panes. Ground floor has a door opening, a blocked door opening, 3 similar segmental arched 2-light casements and 2 blind arches. These are semicircular and formerly and open arcade with central pier and strings at springing. One is now infilled with brick, the other part boarded and each with a 2-light casement. The building, formerly extended W to the High Street and remnants of 2 further arches of the arcade are now part of a slate roofed lean-to block. This now has a 4 pane window and a segmental headed 4 pane window. The frontage to High Street has 2 painted brick piers with ball finials and parapet between. Between these is a door of moulded panels in a elliptical brick arch with bowtel moulding, all round, interrupted by moulded small capitals and bases.

Listing NGR: TL5374038411