2 And 2A, Bridge Street

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 BRIDGE STREET 669-1/1/21 (East side) Nos.2 AND 2A

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2 houses, No.2A with shop. Mid C19. Red brick with scored pointing, peg-tiled hipped roof, red brick stack. Rectangular plan. 2 storeys. W front elevation: 2 units, to N, No.2: house of 2 window range, central stack between, front door at S end. Windows, ground floor, paired horned sashes, 4x2 panes, good voussoirs, splayed sills (now cement rendered, also reveals). First floor, paired C20 casements, also 4x2 panes, dentilled eaves. Front door has 4 bead-moulded panels, good voussoirs. No.2A: ground floor doorway to N, similar to adjacent door of No.2 but early C20 door of 4 panels, upper 2 glazed, lower 2 recessed. Shop window, 4 panes with glazing bars, simple enbablature and pilasters. C20 boarding below. First floor has blind window recess. S elevation to Castle Street: similar brickwork with street corner chamfered on ground floor and corbelled above to right angle on first floor. Ground floor, shop window similar to one in Bridge street but comprises two 2x2 paned casements in all 4x2 panes. To E, voussoir remains of a blocked window. First floor, early C20 window of paired 2x2 casements, in all, 4x2 panes set over shop window below. Truncated red brick stack through lower roof pitch over blocked window. N end elevation: rendered with fixed pane attic window, roof half hipped above.

Listing NGR: TL5358738621