12, East Street

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5438 EAST STREET 669-1/2/137 (South side) No.12

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House. c1700, refurbished early/mid C19, C20 further enlargement at rear. Timber-framed and plastered on brick plinth, peg-tiled roof. Rectangular plan of street range and full length rear addition, C19 chimney stack. One and a half storeys. Front, N elevation: on hill slope, symmetrical, 2-window range with central door and chimney, whole now on high brick plinth as ground now cut down and front door not used. C20 entry now at E and through conservatory. Central doorway has simple cornice hood and restrained flat pilasters, cable decorated, refined capitals. Door C20 with upper glazing, 3x4 panes. Windows have moulded architraves and 2-light casements, 4x4 panes. Above, 2 dormer window, boarded gables with stepped barge-boards, 2-light casements, 4x3 panes. E end entry doorway through flat brick garden wall, door and street face of lean-to conservatory weatherboarded. W side elevation to Tanners Way: set high above lane, gable with stepped bargeboards. Rear wall plate protrudes. High garden wall abuts with lower extension N across house-end comprising a cobble-in-brick panel. E end elevation: gable end with stepped barge-board. Upper C19 2-light casement window, 4x3 panes, below, C20 house entry door with upper glazing, 3x34 panes within C20 lean-to conservatory porch. To rear, deep low-pitched slate roofed lean-to in brick and timber. C19 doorway with moulded architrave. Door has upper glazed panel and lower framed boarding. Adjacent large C20 plain 5-light fixed paned window. Rear, S elevation: simple long range, central stack, slated lean-to roof set high under eaves of principal roof. Lean-to wall colourwashed brickwork. 3 C20 plain casement windows, one 3-light, one 2-light (4x2 panes), one single light. To E, lean-to conservatory seen set back with boarded walling and large 3-light fixed window. INTERIOR: simple 2-celled central chimney system, stair behind stack. Unjowled posts, primary braced walling. Blank W end wall has simple sill of original high window as at E end. Also upper flooring partly removed at W end to make a house open from top to bottom. No original fireplaces. Rear addition not originally full length but only at E end, expanded to full length in C20.

Listing NGR: TL5407038451