14, London Road is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1994. A C19 House, shop. 3 related planning applications.

14, London Road

WRENN ID
last-cornice-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 October 1994
Type
House, shop
Address
14, London Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 4ED
OS grid reference
TL 537 380
Coordinates
52.01981, 0.23906
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

14 London Road is a house with a shop and carriageway, built in the early to mid-19th century. It features a brick exterior that has been colourwashed, with a slate roof and a red brick chimney. The building has a U-shaped plan, with a principal range and rear wings on either side of the carriageway.

The south front elevation is divided by pilasters into five symmetrical bays, with the outer two bays being narrower than the central three. The central carriageway has an elliptical-headed entrance with two bead-moulded, boarded doors. To the east, there is a late 19th-century double-fronted shop that intrudes into the two eastern bays, featuring a splayed recessed entrance and single-paned shop windows with arched framing. The spandrels are decorated with leaf motifs, and the corner posts have leaf capitals and bases. The shop has a glazed door with a lower panel and a fascia board with terminal pendants.

The west end bay has a blocked round-arched doorway, while the adjacent bay has segment-headed sash windows on both the ground and first floors, with glazing bars arranged in a 3x4 pane configuration. Similar windows are found on the first floor above the carriageway and in the bay to the east. The outer first-floor windows at both ends are blind. There is a single dentilled chimney stack towards the west end, and the rear features two first-floor segment-headed sash windows.

There have been additions to the property, including a single-storey structure from the 19th century and a two-storey addition from the 20th century. The west end elevation is blank, constructed of red brick in a 'rat-trap' bond, while the east end abuts an adjoining property.

Local climate

14, London Road 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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