St Vincets

St Vincents is a house located on Castle Street in Saffron Walden, dating from the 17th century but significantly altered in the early and later 20th century. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with a brick and peg-tiled roof. It has a rectangular plan with a street-facing range and two conjoined gabled units at the rear. The house has two storeys and a cellar.

The south front elevation features early 20th-century red brick and a hipped roof, with all architectural details from this period. On the ground floor, there is an east-west wooden door frame with a four-centred arched head and raised batten decoration, leading to a boarded door. There are also two three-light wooden mullioned and transomed windows with rectangular leaded lights. The first floor includes a small three-canted oriel window with a coved corbel and a leaded hipped roof, along with two three-light casement windows in a house style, both with leaded lights. The building has two stacks positioned at the sides behind the roof apex.

On the rear north elevation, there are twin gables and a pantiled lean-to under the eastern gable. The ground floor features a doorway with a two-leaf door that has upper glazing and a lower panel, along with a single-light casement window and a door with a flat hood on brackets. The first floor has three casement windows: one three-light, one single-light, and one two-light. The west side elevation is plastered and shows traces of basket pattern pargetting, with a timber sill on a red brick footing. It has two 20th-century two-light casement windows and one single-light casement window on the first floor.

Inside, much of the structure has been rebuilt, but the rear eastern range retains an early 17th-century binding joist with lamb's tongue chamfer stops. The stack at the junction with the street unit contains some thin bricks that are likely from the 17th century, although it has been largely rebuilt in the 18th century, featuring fireplaces with curved rear walls. The cellar is simply cut into chalk.