St Vincets

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CASTLE STREET 669-1/1/63 (North side) 28/11/51 No.27 St Vincets (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE STREET No.27)

GV II

House. C17 with substantial reworking in both early and later C20. Timber-framed and plastered, brick, peg-tiled roof. Rectangular plan of street range and 2 conjoined gabled rear units. 2 storeys and cellar. S front elevation: early C20 red brick, hipped roof. All features C20. Ground floor, E-W, wooden door frame with 4-centred arched head, raised batten decoration on frame, door boarded with battens, two 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed windows with rectangular leaded lights. First floor, E-W, small 3-cant oriel with coved corbel, leaded hipped roof, leaded lights, two 3-light casement windows in house style with leaded lights. 2 stacks at side behind roof apex. Rear, N elevation: twin gables, rendered, ground floor, pantiled lean-to under E gable. All features C20. Ground floor, E-W, doorway with 2-leaf door, upper glazing and lower panel, single light casement window, door with flat hood on brackets, door has upper glazing. First floor, E-W, windows casements, one 3-light, one single light, one 2-light. W side elevation: plastered with traces of basket pattern pargetting. Timber sill on red brick footing, 2 C20 2-light casement windows, one first floor C20 single-light casement. INTERIOR: considerable rebuilt but rear E range has early C17 binding joist with lamb's tongue chamfer stops. Stack at junction with street unit has some thin bricks, probably C17 but much rebuilt in C18 with fireplaces having curved rear walling. Cellar simply cut into chalk.

Listing NGR: TL5365338662