Primes Close

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 PARK LANE 669-1/1/319 (South side) 01/11/72 Nos.1, 1A, 9 and 9A Primes Close (Formerly Listed as: PARK LANE Nos 1 & 9 Primes Close)

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2 houses, facing each other, E and W, across a small green. 1847 (date plaque). Part of a development of almshouses. Enlarged and divided in C20. Gault and red brick, peg and clay tiled roofs. Front elevation (E and W) gault brick, 3 window range, central doorway, prominent gault gable-end stacks each with paired diagonally set shafts. Doorway chamfered, 4-centre arched head, boarded door of 2 leaves, 4 windows all similar, chamfered reveals, splayed sills, sliding sashes with glazing bars, 4x4 panes. Central first floor window projecting gabled brick oriel on concave corbel, 2-light casement window 2x4 panes. Rear elevation, E and W, red brick, with some burnt headers, ground and first floor C20 casement windows to outer ends, 2x4 panes. Central 2 storeyed C20 addition with stairway, casement windows with glazing bars, C20 door. No.1A, addition in red brick and rendered. No.9A, yellow grey brick, doorway projected out to S. N and S end elevations: gables have moulded barge-boards. Date plaques on N ends. Nos 1 & 1A S end has casement windows on ground and first floor, 2x3 panes and 2x4 panes respectively.

Listing NGR: TL5364038413