1 and 3, Hill Street is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. Community centre, office. 7 related planning applications.
1 and 3, Hill Street
- WRENN ID
- watchful-chancel-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1972
- Type
- Community centre, office
- Address
- 1 and 3, Hill Street, Saffron Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 538 384
- Coordinates
- 52.02274, 0.24046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, comprising numbers 1 and 3 Hill Street, serves as offices for a community centre. It dates from the mid to late 19th century, with a long, single-storey rear addition constructed in the 20th century. The building is constructed of grey gault brick and red brick, with composition dressings and a slate roof.
The rectangular plan includes two storeys and attics, as well as cellars. The north-facing front elevation is in a classical style, with three bays and a central gabled facade, featuring deep, modillioned eaves. Ridge stacks are positioned at the east and west ends, with diagonally set shafts. The central doorway has a panelled doorcase, an overlight with fretted glazing bars, and a 19th-century five-panel door with glazed upper panels. Windows are mainly sash windows with 3x4 panes, with a single window in the gable featuring 3x3 panes. The west-facing elevation is similar to the front, with a single sash window on the first floor (3x4 panes) and a single attic casement window (2x2 panes). Plain 20th-century casement windows feature on the ground floor. A large rectangular area of red brick is visible on the ground floor.
The rear, south-facing elevation is in a Gothic style. The ground floor has been replaced with 20th-century work. The first floor is of red brick, with three bays and a gabled facade. The windows have chamfered brickwork surrounds and labels, along with transoms and mullions. There are two 3-light casement windows and one 2-light casement, with glazing bars, 6x5 panes and 4x5 panes respectively. An attic window is present in the gable, featuring a 2-light, 4x4 pane casement, alongside a stone bust on a corbel. The eaves and bargeboards have cusped shaping and end pendants. The east-facing elevation is similar to the south, featuring a single window on both the ground and first floors, both being 3-light casement windows (6x4 panes), and shaped bargeboards with an apex bracket on a carved corbel.
The interior has been rebuilt in the 20th century and is now plain.
Local climate
1 and 3, Hill 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 — 5 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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