4, Bridge Street is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1994. House. 3 related planning applications.
4, Bridge Street
- WRENN ID
- ragged-pediment-yew
- 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
- Address
- 4, Bridge Street, Saffron Walden, CB10 1BU
- OS grid reference
- TL 535 386
- Coordinates
- 52.02484, 0.23711
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 Bridge Street is a house built in 1838 by the influential Gibson family. It features gault brick and a slate roof, with an L-shaped plan and two storeys. The front (west) elevation is symmetrical with a two-window range, a central front door, and a chimney stack. The tapering plinth accommodates the road, which drops to the north. The ground floor has windows and a door with chamfered reveals and well-crafted voussoirs. The windows are paired sashes, with four panes by four panes on the north side and four panes by two panes on the south side. The doorway has a four-centred arched head, and the door is similar, framed with a full-length, moulded, boarded central panel. Above the door is a recessed date stone reading "1838 G." The first-floor windows are designed as dormers, dropped through the eaves, featuring moulded barge-boards and moulded upper architraves, with triangular tympana that have central pebble-rendered triangular panels. The windows are horned sashes with delicate glazing bars and splayed sills. The chimney is made of gault brick with recessed panels and four buff-coloured square stacks. The rear of the house has an outshut of similar brickwork.
Local climate
4, Bridge Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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