Army And Navy Stores

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 HIGH STREET 669-1/1/188 (East side) 28/11/51 No.18 Army and Navy Stores (part) (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET No.18)

GV II

Shop and office. Late C16. Timber-framed with exposed framing and render. Gabled clay plain tile roof with gabled rear stair tower. 2 storeys with attics. Front has one gabled dormer. Elevation: first floor has contemporary frieze windows, each of 5 lights with moulded mullions, either side of former oriel window (the mortices for brackets and square sides are still visible). In place of the oriel is a C20 3-light painted casement window with leaded lights. Moulded bressumer exposed on 2 original jetty brackets. Ground floor has old storey posts reversed so that jowls face outwards, flanking C20 shopfront with brick stall riser. One small window with rectangular leaded lights and door to offices over. Frieze of plasterwork over shopfront was made from cast of old pargetted decoration with bird and foliage. Rear elevation picturesque with 2 phase brick stack adjoining stair tower and 1 gabled dormer. Late C16 or early C17 timber frame with `A' frame side purlin trusses and old (C17?) staircase in rear tower. Cupboard with old panelling as doors.

Listing NGR: TL5369938492