1, Church Path

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CHURCH PATH 669-1/1/95 (West side) 28/11/51 No.1 (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH PATH Nos.1-7 (Consecutive))

GV II

House, now office. C15 and C19, 2 distinct units. 2 storeys and partial cellar. timber-framed, plastered and brick respectively. Earlier unit, to N C15 rectangular block with peg-tiled roof, gable end to street. E front elevation: single window range, ground and first floor windows both C18 sashes with glazing bars, 3x4 panes, early C19 doorway adjacent to window, simple flat hood, reeded pilasters on jambs, door C20 of 6 fielded panels. C15 gable barge-boards have chamfered cusps and are carried on original projecting horns, tie-beam projects slightly with moulding. Plastered frontage has remnants of panelled basket pargetting. Rear, N side partly contiguous with No.2 (qv), W end projects with ground floor red brick lean-to slate roofed with C19 2x2 paned casement window. First floor, late C18 sliding sash with glazing bars, 4x4 panes, adjacent, C20 casement window. Upper plastered wall has remains of basket pargetting similar to E front. INTERIOR has 2-bay crown-post roof, stout 2-way bracing to central crown-post, set on cambered tie-beam, cut back mortices and tenons for arched braces which have been removed. Later brick unit to S: C19, rectangular, at junction of Church Path and Church Street. Hipped, peg-tiled roof. Principal S Frontage to Church Street of 2 window range, first floor has early C19 windows, plain reveals, glazing bars, 3x4 panes, below, string course. Ground floor now has single central segment headed window with key-stone, sash, with marginal panes, 3x2 panes. Voussoir over continues out equally each side and is in line with straight joint in brickwork denoting a much larger original opening, probably a shop. Below, voussoired cellar light with decorative iron grille. E elevation, to Church Path, single window range, 2 early C19 sash windows with glazing bars, 3x4 panes. String course divides floors, parapet in front of roof hip. Rear abuts adjacent property. INTERIOR ground floor joists exposed in cellar are of C16, oak, with diminished soffit tenons, and are part of an earlier building on the site.

Listing NGR: TL5373238560