64, Debden Road

This is a house dating from circa 1870, built in the High Victorian Gothic style. It is constructed of polychrome brick with flint rubble sides and a rear of brick, featuring brick dressings. The roof is slate, with fishscale bands and a decorative ridge. The gables have pierced timber bargeboards with trefoil motifs.

The house is two storeys high with a basement, arranged in an L-shape and including a lean-to porch in the angle and a side and rear stack. A projecting gabled wing has a canted bay window to the basement and ground floor. The front elevation features decorative brickwork using gault and blue brick on a red ground, including a first-floor band and graduated diaper patterns extending up to the gable. Fine gauged red and gault brick relieving arches frame the hollow chamfered and roll-moulded door and window surrounds. The windows are a mix of casement and fixed lights. The rear elevation has similar details, but they are somewhat simplified. The stacks are concertina-style with oversailing cornices, and arched sunk panels flank the side stack.

The interior retains 19th-century joinery, including panelled doors and a staircase with stick balusters and a turned newel. The plot was developed after the railway extension to Saffron Walden in 1864. The architectural style reflects the local work of architect William Beck, and the diverse brick detailing suggests a master bricklayer's exemplar.