6a, Church Street

6A Church Street is a house located in Saffron Walden, originally known as Nos. 6 and 6A Church Street. It dates back to the 15th century, with rebuilding and refacing in the 18th century, and partial integration with No. 6 in the 20th century. The building features timber framing and red brick, topped with a peg-tiled roof and a red brick stack. It has a rectangular plan, consisting of two storeys and a cellar.

The south front elevation is made of brick, adorned with a stone cornice, parapet, and string course. It has a four-window range with full depth painted reveals and good voussoirs. On the ground floor, there are two similar doorways with flat hoods, reeded jambs, and recessed panelled doorcases. The western doorway has an overlight and a six-panel door, with the upper four panels glazed, while the other door has six recessed panels. The ground floor also features two windows, which are alternating sashes with glazing bars, arranged as three by four panes. A cellar grating is located at the western end.

On the first floor, there are four windows similar to those on the ground floor, with the western end window being a late 20th-century reinstatement of a previously blocked window. There is a stack at the western end and two further stacks behind the roof apex. The rear, or north elevation, has a street range with a 19th-century brick ground floor and a slated lean-to that continues around the eastern return wall of the yard. A tall stack is positioned at the western end, with a gabled cross-roof behind. The ground floor features a 20th-century four-panel door, with the upper two panels glazed, and an adjacent two by three-paned casement window. The eastern return has a similar window, but it is a 19th-century two-casement design. On the first floor, there is one 20th-century two by three-paned casement window and one 19th-century sliding sash window with glazing bars arranged as four by four panes.

Inside, the ground floor at the rear has some exposed framing, including the lower part of a rising arched brace. The cellar features a curved tunnel way leading to a segment-headed vault, with a window splay to the street. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments records an enclosed crown post roof on a north-south axis within the current roof, which was revealed during roof work in 1965. This roof is likely aligned with the rear sub-gable behind the stack.