2 and 2a, Bridge Street is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1994. A Victorian Houses, shop.
2 and 2a, Bridge Street
- WRENN ID
- calm-stair-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1994
- Type
- Houses, shop
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- 2 and 2a, Bridge Street, Saffron Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 535 386
- Coordinates
- 52.02476, 0.23715
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 and No. 2A Bridge Street are two houses dating from the mid-19th century, with No. 2A featuring a shop. The buildings are constructed of red brick with scored pointing and have a peg-tiled hipped roof, along with a red brick chimney stack. They have a rectangular plan and are two storeys high.
The west front elevation consists of two units. No. 2, to the north, has a two-window range with a central stack and a front door located at the south end. The ground floor windows are paired horned sashes with four panes by two panes, featuring good voussoirs and splayed sills, although the reveals are now cement rendered. The first floor has paired 20th-century casements, also with four panes by two panes, and dentilled eaves. The front door has four bead-moulded panels and good voussoirs.
No. 2A features a ground floor doorway to the north, similar to the adjacent door of No. 2, but it is an early 20th-century door with four panels, the upper two of which are glazed and the lower two recessed. There is a shop window with four panes and glazing bars, along with a simple entablature and pilasters, and 20th-century boarding below. The first floor has a blind window recess.
The south elevation facing Castle Street has similar brickwork, with a chamfered corner on the ground floor and corbelled above to form a right angle on the first floor. The ground floor shop window is similar to the one on Bridge Street but consists of two casements with two panes each, totaling four panes by two panes. To the east, there are voussoirs remaining from a blocked window. The first floor features an early 20th-century window with paired two-by-two casements, totaling four panes by two panes, situated above the shop window below. A truncated red brick stack is visible through the lower roof pitch over the blocked window. The north end elevation is rendered and has a fixed pane attic window, with the roof half hipped above.
Local climate
2 and 2a, Bridge 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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