Cromwell Lodge

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 COMMON HILL 669-1/1/125 (West side) 01/11/72 No.10 Cromwell Lodge (Formerly Listed as: COMMON HILL No.10)

GV II

Includes: No.39 CHURCH STREET. House, at street junction with Church Street. c1800, but probably C17 core. Red brick, tuck pointed, clay and peg-tiled roof, also slates, red brick stack. L shaped plan. 2 storeys and attic. Front E elevation: 4 bays, 3 window range, doorway and stack in bay 3 from S. Gambrel half hipped roof. Doorway, cornice hood with plain pilasters to jambs, over-light with diagonally crossed glazing bars, door of 6 flush bead moulded panels, 2 boot scrapers. Windows sashes with glazing bars, 4x4 panes, ground floor segment headed. N elevation to Church Street. Gable end of principal range with early C19 ground floor doorway with cornice hood, ornate frieze, door of 6 panels, upper 2 glazed, lower 4 flush bead moulded. Adjacent segment headed blind window aperture. First floor similar flat headed blind window. 2 casement windows, 1 single-light, 2x2 panes, one 2-light 4x3 panes. Attic casement window 2x2 panes. To W, mid C19 wing of 2 window range. All windows C20, 3 of 2 lights 4x3 panes, one first floor 2x3 panes. Rear W elevation: principal range single ground and first floor C19 windows with glazing bars, 3x4 panes. W wing. Ground floor C20 French window with overlight 3x6 panes, second C20 fully glazed door with overlight 3x6 panes. First floor, C19 segment headed window with glazing bars, 4x4 panes. 2 red brick stacks through roof pitch. To W, 2-storey stable red brick, slate roof. Central segment headed archway with hay loft door above. 2 first floor and one ground floor oval statted vents. Ground floor C19 2-light casement window with glazing bars 4x4 panes. INTERIOR: now essentially C20 but plan of principal range suggests C17 origin as a 3-celled lobby-entrance house. Stable, loft floor and 2 stalls remain. The adjacent carriageway at N end of No.9 Common Hill (qv) belongs to No.10.

Listing NGR: TL5393638652