Army And Navy Stores (Part)

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 HIGH STREET 669-1/1/190 (East side) 28/11/51 No.20 Army and Navy Stores (part) (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET No.20)

GV II

Shop and office. Late C15 or early C16. Timber framing partly exposed and gabled plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attics. One lean-to roofed dormer with 2-light leaded casement. Elevation: the exposed frame of first floor shows 2 original windows with deep oriels sills. Between are C17 windows with moulded mullions and original openings are now filled by a 2-light and a 3-light painted timber casement with leaded lights. Jetty exposed with moulded bressumer and 3 brackets. Ground floor has storey posts reversed showing jowls to the exterior. Contemporary 4-centred arched door-head with leaf carved spandrels and C20 door fitted under. C20 shopfront of 3 large panes and brick stallriser. Above the shopfront is a band of moulded plasterwork remade from casts of old work. To the rear is a half gable against adjoining building and a slate lean-to. The building is part only of a longer, long-wall jetty house, truncated at its N end. INTERIOR: chamfered spine-beams formerly with soffit tenoned joists. Hole in rear framing for former contemporary rear wall-stack and mortice possibly for garderobe door head. Crown post roof with one chamfered post with plain stops at base.

Listing NGR: TL5369938492