58, 60, 62 and 64, Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. Houses. 3 related planning applications.
58, 60, 62 and 64, Castle Street
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-merlon-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1972
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- 58, 60, 62 and 64, Castle Street, Saffron Walden, CB10 1BJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 538 387
- Coordinates
- 52.02593, 0.24169
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The property comprises four houses located at 58, 60, 62, and 64 Castle Street. Number 62 exhibits an early 17th-century core, significantly reworked in the 19th century, with 20th-century refurbishment. The construction is timber-framed and plastered, with a peg-tiled roof and red brick stacks, along with later brickwork. The plan is rectangular and follows a street range with a continuous rear lean-to. The houses are two storeys high with attics.
The north-facing front elevation has a four-window arrangement; originally, there were four doorways, with the doorway for number 62 now removed. The houses are grouped in pairs, sharing stacks. Numbers 58 and 60 have simple 19th-century boarded doors and 19th-century sliding sash windows with glazing bars, each with two windows on the ground floor and two on the first floor, each window containing 4x3 panes. There are two lead-gabled dormers; one has a 19th-century sliding sash window with 4x2 panes, and the other a 20th-century window with the same configuration. A stack rises behind the roof ridge. Number 64 features a boarded door and 20th-century replacement windows—two-light casements with rectangular leaded panes, with two ground-floor and two first-floor windows. There are also two lead-gabled dormers, and a stack rises behind the apex.
The south-facing rear elevation has a full-length peg-tiled catslide roof extending over a 19th-century brick, single-storey lean-to. Large rectangular stacks are visible through the roof pitch where the houses meet the lean-to. Numbers 58 and 60 each have a 20th-century clay-tiled gabled dormer window with a two-light casement window containing 4x3 panes. They also have boarded doors paired with adjacent 20th-century three-light casement windows. Numbers 64 and 62 have a 19th-century boarded door with a 3x2-pane light above, as well as two 20th-century two-light casement windows with 4x3 panes. Two large skylights are also present.
Interior features include early 17th-century timber framing with jowled posts and primary braced studs, as well as a 19th-century softwood rear addition. Fireplaces are present in numbers 62 and 64, with a diagonal back-to-back arrangement, featuring thin early 17th-century bricks and timber lintels. It is reported that the fireplaces in numbers 58 and 60 are similar.
Local climate
58, 60, 62 and 64, Castle 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 17 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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