14, Freshwell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. House.

14, Freshwell Street

WRENN ID
silent-roof-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 November 1972
Type
House
Address
14, Freshwell Street, Saffron Walden, CB10 1BY
OS grid reference
TL 534 385
Coordinates
52.0245, 0.23577
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 14 Freshwell Street is a house dating from the late 19th century, with possible earlier elements from the late 18th or early 19th century. It features red brick construction with peg tile and slate roofs, and has an L-shaped plan with a rear addition and lean-tos. The house is two storeys tall, and the front southeast elevation has three bays with a hipped roof. The central doorway is segment-headed and features an overlight, with a 19th-century panelled door that has glazed upper panels and a flush bead moulded lower panel. The windows have slight segment heads, chamfered reveals, and are horned sashes with glazing bars arranged in 3x4 panes.

On the rear northwest elevation, there are stacks that rise through the roof pitch at each end. To the south, there is a catslide roof of a lean-to, which includes a sash window with 4x4 panes. A central gabled stair-well protrudes through the roof pitch and has a 19th-century sash window with 3x4 panes. To the north, there is a two-storey gabled wing with a flat-roofed extension on the south side, along with further long lean-tos to the south. The gabled unit has 20th-century ground floor lean-to additions and irregular 20th-century fenestration, including single light casements and a two-light window with glazing bars. A 20th-century door with an upper glazed panel is also present.

The southwest side elevation features a rendered and ashlar-lined house and catslide lean-to. It has two ground floor sash windows with glazing bars in 4x4 panes. The first floor of the gabled wing has two sash windows with 19th-century moulded architraves and a small 19th-century casement window with margin glazing in between. The ground floor lean-to includes two 20th-century doors, one boarded and the other with two panels and an upper glazed section, as well as a 20th-century three-light casement window. The interior is plain, but the layout suggests that it may have earlier origins.

Local climate

14, Freshwell Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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