6A, Church Street

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CHURCH STREET 669-1/1/99 (North side) 28/11/51 No.6A

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.6 AND 6A CHURCH STREET. House. C15, with C18 rebuilding and refacing, C20 partial integration with No.6 (qv). Timber framing and red brick, peg-tiled roof, red brick stack. Rectangular plan. 2 storeys and cellar. S front elevation: brick with stone cornice, parapet and string course. 4 window range with full depth painted reveals, good voussoirs. Ground floor, 2 similar doorways, flat hoods, reeded jambs and recessed panelled doorcases, one (W) has an overlight and door of 6 panels, upper 4 glazed, other door of 6 recessed panels. 2 windows, alternating, sashes with glazing bars, 3x4 panes. Cellar grating to W end. First floor, 4 windows similar to ground floor, W end window late C20 reinstated (was blocked). Stack at W end, 2 further stacks behind roof apex. Rear, N elevation: street range has C19 brick ground floor slated lean-to with continuation round E return wall of yard. Tall stack at W end with gabled cross-roof behind. Ground floor, C20 4 panelled door, upper 2 glazed, adjacent, 2x3 paned casement window. E return has similar window but C19, of 2 casements. First floor, one C20 2x3 paned casement window and one C19 sliding sash window, glazing bars, 4x4 panes. INTERIOR: ground floor, rear, some framing exposed with lower part of rising arched brace. Cellar has curved tunnel way approach to segment headed vault, window splay to street. RCHM records an enclosed crown post roof on N-S axis within present roof, revealed in 1965 during roof work. This is probably on alignment of rear sub-gable behind stack.

Listing NGR: TL5372938556