Comrades Club

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 HIGH STREET 669-1/1/204 (West side) 01/11/72 No.55 Comrades Club

GV II

Former house, now club. Early to mid C19. Stucco with slate hipped roof and a red brick stack over each flank. 3 storeys with cellars. Elevation: second floor has 3 recessed 8 paned double-hung sash windows. On the first floor, the 2 outer bays have double-hung sash windows with central vertical glazing bars in double recessed segmental headed panels. In the centre is a similar window in a deeper segmental headed recess including both ground and first floors. The outer parts of the ground floor have flat-roofed, canted bay windows with flat roofs, stucco cornices and double-hung sash windows in each face. In the centre is a doorcase with attached Tuscan columns and 4 stone steps with a pair of cast-iron footscrapers. Door of 2 leaves with 3 moulded panels in each and moulded cornice and semicircular Adamesque fanlight over. Black painted plinth with 2 cellar lights, one with iron grille. Flagstaff mounted against wall in cente of upper part of facade. S flank is rendered. Rear: lean-to roofed extension and large C20 clubroom extensions. INTERIOR: much altered but some panelled doors on second floor and cornices on ground floor front rooms.

Listing NGR: TL5372638342