25 And 25A, Hill Street

25 and 25A Hill Street is a pair of houses located in Saffron Walden, originally known as No. 25 High Street. The buildings date from the 17th century, 18th century, and 20th century, and have been refurbished. They are constructed with a timber frame and plaster, featuring 20th-century panel pargetting, and have a hipped peg-tiled roof. The layout is L-shaped, consisting of a principal rectangular range with a rear wing at the eastern end. The houses are two storeys tall with a rear attic.

The northern elevation has five principal sash windows with glazing bars, arranged in three recessed bays, although the centre of the ground floor is blank. There are two doorways in projecting bays, each topped with flat cornice hoods and over-lights. The doorway for No. 25A features intersecting curved glazing bars, and both doors are six-panelled. Above these doors, on the first floor, there are small arch-headed windows with two panes in square framing.

On the southern elevation, there is a principal two-window range with a full-height stopped gable wing and a single window range at the eastern end. A small secondary stack is located through the eastern roof pitch of the wing. All windows and doors have been restored in the 20th century. The windows are mainly casements with glazing bars, with the ground floor featuring three-light windows with six by four panes and the first floor having six by three panes. The attic gable of the wing has a two-light window with four by three panes. The western face of the wing has ground and first-floor windows that match the rest, plus a single light casement on both floors, with the ground floor having two by four panes and the first floor having two by three panes. There are two back doors, one in the principal range and one in the western face of the wing, both of which are 20th-century with four panels and three glazed in the upper section.

The eastern elevation is largely obscured by No. 27, but it features a simple two-light casement window with two by two panes on the first floor, as well as a dormer window with two lights and two by three panes central to the front range. The western end elevation is blank. The interior of No. 25 has been inspected, revealing some exposed rear wall studding on the ground floor. The roofs of the principal range and wing are constructed with joggled butt side purlins and deep collars, with some side purlins removed for attic use. The roof framing suggests that the wing was built first, followed by the street range.