39, Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1994. Almshouse.
39, Castle Street
- WRENN ID
- tattered-outpost-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1994
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- 39, Castle Street, Saffron Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 536 386
- Coordinates
- 52.02528, 0.23874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
39 Castle Street is an almshouse, now a private house, built around 1880. The building features red brick construction with a plain tile roof that has cresting. The upper part of the front is rendered and pargetted with applied timber framing. There is a red brick stack located at the center of the right side wall. The structure has two bays and two storeys, with a gable end facing the street.
The front of the building is jettied on brackets. On the ground floor, there is a boarded door and a three-light casement window with a canted brick sill, both situated under segmental brick arches. The first floor has a pair of two-light small paned casement windows. The gable features barge-boards and a louvred opening with two lights and trefoiled heads at the apex. This almshouse was built by the Saffron Walden Almshouse Trustees, who acquired the property in 1879.
Local climate
39, Castle Street 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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