6, Church Street

This is an 18th-century house with a rear wing dating to the 17th century, situated on Church Street in Saffron Walden. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with brick and peg-tiled roof, and features red brick stacks. It has an L-shaped plan, incorporating a street range and a rear wing, spanning two storeys, an attic, and a cellar.

The front elevation, facing south, is of red brick with burnt headers, six bays wide, and includes a stone cornice and parapet, a string course between floors, and a plinth. A doorway is centrally positioned, accessed by steps leading to a wooden doorcase with dentilled pediments, Doric columns, fluted jambs, a triglyph frieze, fielded panel reveals, and a six-panel door. Most windows are sashes with glazing bars, arranged in a 3x4 pane pattern; the ground floor windows retain exposed sash boxes, while those on the first floor are set within brickwork. Two first-floor windows, located three and five bays from the western end, are blocked. Cellar grilles are positioned on either side of the doorway. A slated dormer window with two lights is set behind the parapet. A stack is located at the western end.

The rear elevation, facing north, is brick and displays three facade gables, each with a first-floor window – two 3x4-pane sashes and one 2-light casement with 4x5 panes. A central doorway is sheltered by a simple cornice hood with a recessed panelled frieze, and features reeded jambs, recessed panels, and a six-panel door with glazed upper sections. Two ground-floor sash windows are present, one 3x4-pane and the other 2x4-pane, alongside a French window with each leaf divided into 2x4 panes. A timber-framed wing at the lower level has 19th-century decorative bargeboards at its northern end. First-floor windows on the north and west sides each have windows with moulded architraves and 3x4 panes, along with small 2x3-pane casement windows adjacent to the street range. The ground floor brickwork on the north end features a 19th-century sash window. The west side has a 3-light 20th-century casement window and a triple sash window with 1x4, 3x4 and 1x2 panes. The east side of the wing incorporates a ground-floor slated lean-to, a 20th-century door with upper glazing and an adjacent single-light casement window, as well as a skylight. A truncated, tapering red brick stack is also present.

The interior has undergone significant rebuilding, but the roof of the street range retains 17th-century features, including side purlins from an earlier timber-framed structure.