Barn 1 Metre North East Of Bridge End Road Farmhouse

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 BRIDGE STREET 669-1/1/37 (East side) Barn 1m north-east of Bridge End Farmhouse

GV II

Barn, now used as general store. C17 with C18 refurbishment. Timber-framed, weatherboarded, C18 brickwork with timber bearers under sills, peg-tiled roof. L shaped plan of range plus cross-wing with small additional lean-to at SE end. Principal, NW front elevation (towards farm-yard): main range to SW with half hipped roof, flush cross-wing gable to NE with brick footings rising to higher level. SW-NW, C20 4-panel house door inserted, infilled earlier opening now with C20 3-light casement, high boarded loading door with owl hole, divided `stable' door, high C20 replacement 2-leaf waggon door under NE gable, boarded loading door above within gable. Rear, SE elevation: cross-wing projects at NE end with half hipped roof. Small weatherboarded lean-to at W end with corrugated asbestos cement roof. NE end elevation: side of cross-wing, high brick plinth across face, roof gabled to front, half hipped to rear. SW end elevation: high brick plinth with timber bearers, half hipped gable end, high boarded loading door. INTERIOR: primary braced studding, side purlin roof, slender members. Junction of SW range and cross-wing has stud mortices and wattle groove defining site of former partition.

Listing NGR: TL5354138722