Number 67 and Garden Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1951. House, offices. 4 related planning applications.
Number 67 and Garden Walls
- WRENN ID
- bitter-garret-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1951
- Type
- House, offices
- Address
- Number 67 and Garden Walls, High Street, Saffron Walden, CB10 1AA
- OS grid reference
- TL 537 382
- Coordinates
- 52.02168, 0.23926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 67 is a former house, now offices, dating back to the 16th century, with significant alterations from the 18th and early 19th centuries. The building is timber-framed, with some rendered sections and stuccoed brickwork. It has a low-pitched hipped plain tile roof over the front range, and three gabled plain tile roofed ranges extending at right angles to the rear. The two-storey structure includes cellars.
The front elevation is stuccoed, featuring a central pediment. The central section projects slightly, with two overlaid recessed panels on the first floor. The first floor has three double-hung sash windows with small panes and margin glazing, while the ground floor has two similar windows and a central doorcase with a pediment, enriched Doric pilasters, panelled reveals, and a frieze decorated with two sunflowers and two unidentified motifs. Remade wrought-iron handrails with bootscrapers are present, along with a 20th-century door and four steps. Wide-spaced dentils run along the eaves. Cellar lights are covered by shaped wrought-iron grilles. The rear elevation displays two stacks, and two of the gables are linked, featuring cladding of English-bond red brickwork; above the tie-beam level on one section is cladding of stretcher-bond red brickwork. A glazed rear lean-to extension has been added. The south flank is ashlar, with a pair of linked plain double-hung sashes and a 19th-century window with 12 panes.
High brick garden walls enclose the rear garden, one of which includes a stone plaque with Roman lettering reading 'Meeting Trustees'.
The interior of the south wing’s rear section reveals a cross-wing dating from the mid to late 16th century, with exposed timber framing on the first floor, featuring jowled posts and internal cranked wind braces. A 17th-century door has cockspur hinges. The entrance hall features 17th-century panelling up to the dado rail. Large rooms on the ground and first floors at the north end each have fireplaces from the mid-18th century, with eared surrounds and panelled overmantels framed by Doric pilasters. Windows to the front elevation have canted panelled reveals. A section of exposed timber framing lines the north flank of the ground floor. The ground floor north room features an early 19th-century marble fireplace and a corner cupboard/niche with a semi-domed head and shaped shelves. The staircase has column balusters and newels with acorn finials. The main stack in the cellar contains a recess for storage shelves, alongside two shallow arch-vaulted recesses. Numerous minor interior features from the 18th and early 19th centuries are also present.
Local climate
Number 67 and Garden Walls 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 — 3 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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