14, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. Shop and office.

14, High Street

WRENN ID
graven-render-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 November 1972
Type
Shop and office
Address
14, High Street, Saffron Walden
OS grid reference
TL 536 385
Coordinates
52.02383, 0.23846
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

14 High Street is a Grade II listed shop and offices dating from the early 19th century. The building is constructed of yellow gault brick and features a hipped slate roof. It has two storeys, an attic, and cellars. The High Street facade includes a projecting vertical panel of brickwork with a 12-paned double-hung sash window on each floor, both topped with stuccoed heads. Below these windows is a cellar light with a similar head and an iron grille. To the south, there is another similar window on the first floor.

The corner of the building at Church Street is rounded and showcases an impressive contemporary shopfront with five attached fluted columns that have Corinthianesque capitals adorned with vertical palm leaves and naturalistic flowers. Above the shopfront is a fascia designed as an entablature with egg-and-dart moulding beneath the cornice. The columns frame a three-light display window on each side, along with a corner entrance door and an additional door from Church Street. The corner entrance features cement steps, panelled reveals and soffit, and a rectangular margin glazed fanlight above. The entrance from Church Street is similar but narrower. Above the corner entrance, there are large paned French windows with a cast-iron balcony, framed by smaller Corinthianesque columns, an entablature, and panelled flanks and soffit. The Church Street facade is broader and resembles the High Street side, featuring an old metal street name plate on the first floor.

At the rear, there is a lean-to extension made of painted brick, which includes a 12-paned double-hung sash window on the first floor above a simple entrance door with a stuccoed head. The rear yard wall has a corner window with overlapping panes of glass. The eastern part of the roof has two gault brick chimney stacks, one with two octagonal shafts and the other with three.

Inside, the well staircase features a reeded newel post and a wreathed handrail made of softwood, with a skylight above leading to the attic, which has replaced a rooflight on the ridge. The first floor retains several four-panelled doors with moulded architraves, and the large cellar is lined with flint and brick dressings.

Local climate

14, High 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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