Home Farm House

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL53NW AUDLEY END ROAD, Audley End 669-1/3/345 (South side) 28/11/51 Home Farm House (Formerly Listed as: AUDLEY END Home Farm House)

GV II

Formerly known as: House occupied by Mr PE Wedd AUDLEY END. House. C17, refaced in C18. Timber frame, plastered, red brick, stacks also in red brick, C20 clay tiled roof. Plan, original rectangular house with rear central stair tower and later additions each side to make deeper rectangle. 2 storeys and cellars. Front N elevation: C18 brick front of 5 bays, scored pointing, central doorway with fluted pilasters, simple flat cornice hood, pulvinated frieze, panelled reveals, door of 6 fielded panels. All windows have very good voussoirs and all are sashes with glazing bars, 3x4 panes. Above, parapet with dentilled cornice masks half hipped roof, central square stack. Rear, S elevation: original form of house clear, symmetrical with central hip roofed stair tower in front of stack with deep 2-light casement window glazing bars, 4x4 panes. Each side, 2-storey, red brick , flat roofed addition, on E side full width, with ground floor 4-panelled door (upper 2 glazed), double casement window, 4x4 panes and small ground floor lean-to at E end with 1x2 casement. First floor, two 2x3 casements. Addition to W side of stair tower has similar first floor window, also tall stack at E end. C20 conservatory at W end. E and W elevations: both brick faced with clear line where parapet has been added to front of lower roof gable. Line continues down marking addition of front wall. INTERIOR: all now relined in Georgian style panelling but original C17 lobby-entrance plan is still clear with 3 cells, one room W of stack and 2 to E of unequal length. Cellar of C17 origin, some thin bricks.

Listing NGR: TL5243438000