17, Museum Street is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1994. House, offices. 6 related planning applications.
17, Museum Street
- WRENN ID
- ragged-pewter-winter
- 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, offices
- Address
- 17, Museum Street, Saffron Walden, CB10 1BN
- OS grid reference
- TL 537 386
- Coordinates
- 52.02536, 0.24004
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a three-storey house, built in 1863 and later used as offices. A keyblock bearing the date “TW 1863” sits above the main entrance. The house is constructed of red brick with gault brick dressings, topped with a slate roof. It has off-centre and right-end ridge stacks with cornices.
The house has four bays and features dentilled eaves, white brick quoins, and three horizontal bands of brickwork marking the floors. A projecting gabled entrance bay has bargeboards, and the entrance door is decorative, with a fanlight under a round arch featuring a moulded terracotta keyblock. Round-headed windows are located above the entrance, and also feature margin glazed sashes. A service entrance is located to the left, also with a vertically panelled door and fanlight under a round arch with a terracotta keyblock. Other windows are set within flat, gauged brick arches, with red and black brick keyblocks to the ground floor, red brick keyblocks to the first floor, and alternating red and white bricks to the second floor. All windows have sashes with margin glazing. Group Value: The building contributes to the group value of buildings along this part of Museum Street.
Local climate
17, Museum 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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