8, Bridge Street

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 BRIDGE STREET 669-1/1/25 (East side) 28/11/51 No.8

GV II

House. C16 with C20 rear addition. Timber frame, rendered, red brick, peg-tiled roof. Rectangular plan of narrow street range with rear addition. 2 storeys and partial attic, cellar. Front, W elevation: house on high brick plinth, steps up to front door. 2 units. (1) timber framing exposed with straight external tension bracing across fairly close studding, jettied first floor with major framing joists at each end and accompanying brackets. Ground floor, beneath jetty, rectangular bay window of 3 casements with glazing bars, 6x3 panes, also 1x3 fixed lights to return sides. Below, C20 boarded cellar door, red brick plinth each side carrying high sill. Simple front doorway adjacent to S with C19 door of 4 bead-moulded flush panels. First floor, central 3-light casement window with rectangular leaded panes. (2) to S, brick faced single window range, sliding sash windows, ground floor 4x4 panes, first floor 4x3 panes. N end elevation: jettied timber-framed block to W rear addition to E both on brick and flint cobble plinth. Framing similar to front with pair of straight tension braces on first floor. Gable weatherboarded with central 2x3 casement window. Horns of wall plates project to carry barge-boards which are now missing. Also single small casement window at rear on first floor. Rear addition, 2 storey with C19 stack at junction with older front range. Low pitched slate roof, single ground floor double casement window with glazing bars, 4x4 panes. Similar smaller first floor window 4x2 panes. Rear E elevation: broad gable, ground floor C20 door, upper glazing 2x3 panes and lower panel, C20 sliding sash window 4x4 panes, first floor has 2 C20 oriel windows both of sliding sashes, 4x4 panes, also 1x4 paned return side lights. INTERIOR: jettied block - joists have step-stopped chamfers. S side wall of block has medieval door head with sunk spandrels on S face, also carpenters' assembly marks and mortices above possibly for a dais head-board. Brick faced bay to S, independently framed and probably later in date. Tie-beam at S end lifted at front to accommodate eaves level of C19 brick refronting.

Listing NGR: TL5357838642