Boundary And Garden Wall To St Mark'S College

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL53NW VILLAGE STREET, Audley End 669-1/3/339 Boundary and garden wall to St 28/11/51 Mark's College (Formerly Listed as: AUDLEY END Boundary and garden wall at St Mark's College)

GV II

Formerly known as: Boundary and garden wall of Abbey Farm AUDLEY END. Enclosure wall to St Mark's College (qv). C17 with later repairs and additions. Small red bricks with wide joints. Irregular pentagonal plan approx 110m x 70m, college block set within at W end. W run, front garden wall to college, C18 brick, approx 1m high, shaped coping, 2 gateways through. NW and N runs mainly C17 brickwork, plinth, 2m high, principal gateway at N corner has piers with low pyramidal caps, 2-leaf gate. N run, E end, wall swept up to approx 2.5m and continues S with high plinth, 2 C18 buttresses on E side. Inside (W side), C17 walling, early C19 barn as lean-to, ruinous, was formerly listed. Wall to S corner progressively reduced but original battered early C17 buttress and high plinth. S end now missing, S side, good C17 section, 2.5m high continues back to meet front garden wall. At mid-length of S run, early C19 inner garden wall spurred off towards SE cormer of college but not meeting, complete lenth of work in brick framed panels with flint and erratics, 2m high with shaped brick coping.

Listing NGR: TL5256237692