14, High Street

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 HIGH STREET 669-1/1/185 (East side) 01/11/72 No.14

GV II

Shop and offices. Early C19. Yellow gault brick with hipped slate roof. 2 storeys with attic and cellars. High Street frontage has projecting vertical panel of brickwork with a 12 paned double-hung sash window with stuccoed head on each floor. Beneath these is a cellar light with similar head and iron grille. Towards the S is a similar window on the first floor. The corner to Church Street is quadrant curved with a grand contemporary shopfront with 5 attached fluted columns with Corinthianesque capitals of vertical palm leaves and naturalistic flowers. The fascia over is in the form of an entablature with egg-and-dart moulding under cornice. The columns frame a 3-light display window to each frontage, a corner entrance door and a door from Church Street. The corner entrance has cement steps, panelled reveals and soffit and rectangular margin glazed fanlight over. The Church Street entrance is similar but narrower. Over the corner entrance is a pair of large paned French windows with cast-iron balcony framed by similar but smaller Corinthianesque columns, entablature and panelled flanks and soffit. Church Street frontage is broader and similar to that of the High Street but with old metal street name plate on first floor. To the rear (E), is a lean-to extension of painted brick with 12 paned double-hung sash window on first floor over a simple entrance door with stuccoed head. The rear yard facing wall has a corner window of overlapping panes of glass. On the E part of the roof are 2 chimney stacks of gault brick, one with 2 and one with 3 octagonal shafts. INTERIOR: the well staircase has reeded newel post and wreathed handrail of softwood and skylight over to attic, which has replaced rooflight on ridge. The first floor retains several 4-panelled doors with moulded architraves. Large cellar lined with flint and brick dressings.

Listing NGR: TL5368238526