Number 3 And Attached Wall

Number 3 is a house dating from around 1800, constructed with a timber frame and plaster, along with flint and brick. It features a slate roof and red and gault brick stacks. The building has two storeys and a cellar. The front west elevation displays original plaster with ashlar lining and has two windows, all of which are fitted with moulded architraves and sliding sashes with four panes each. The central front doorway has a 20th-century door with four panels, two of which are glazed, and there are two cellar grilles beneath the lower windows.

The rear east elevation is made of red brick and is partly hidden as the house backs onto the earthen bailey bank of Saffron Walden Castle. There is a large exterior red and gault brick stack on the north side, and a small 19th-century casement window on the first floor. The south end elevation features flint cobble walling with red brick bands, and the roof gable triangle is timber-framed and plastered. The north end elevation is similar and has a gault brick exterior stack.

Attached to the southwest corner of the house is a wall that runs to Museum Yard, made of flint cobble with red brick dressings and a semicircular brick coping. This wall extends southwest for approximately 19 meters, then turns north for about 10.5 meters to meet Number 11 Museum Street. The wall is interrupted by two gateways leading to Museum Street.