19, High Street

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 HIGH STREET 669-1/1/189 (West side) 29/08/69 No.19

GV II

House and shop, now offices. C15 and early C19. Timber-framed with yellow gault brick front. Roof of plain tiles, hipped at N end behind parapet. 2 storeys. First floor of front has 2 double hung sash windows, each with gault flat arches and a double-hung sash window with one vertical glazing bar and red brick rubbed brick arch. The ground floor has central rebuilt doorcase with pilasters and flat hood and C20 shop fronts. Access to rear yard at S end of facade with rendered flat arch over. C20 extensions to rear, in yard and remnants of timber-framed buildings incorporated in yard walls to SW. Rear of C15 rear wing encased in red brickwork. Former C15 hall-house with single formerly gabled and jettied cross-wing at N end. This is of 4 bays with integral service cross passage which extended to the rear as open sided arcade to courtyard (similar to Swan Public House, Maldon, Essex). The front room was constructed as a shop and the room behind (with fragmentary wall paintings) was formerly the parlour. Evidence survives for former spered wall to hall which has inserted C16 floor and was raised in height in C17. Cross-wing has simple crown-post roof. Interesting example of an `urban' plan form, designed to maximise a restricted site.

Listing NGR: TL5366938503