The Saffron Hotel (Part) is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1951. Hotel.
The Saffron Hotel (Part)
- WRENN ID
- silent-doorway-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1951
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Saffron Hotel (Part), 8, High Street, Saffron Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 536 385
- Coordinates
- 52.02407, 0.23819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Saffron Hotel, part of a former house, dates from the 18th century. It features a timber-framed structure that is rendered, with large panels and coved plaster eaves. The gabled roof is covered in plain tiles and includes two flat-roofed 20th-century dormers. The building has two storeys and attics.
On the first floor, there are three windows, each with three lights and central horizontal glazing bars, with the centre light designed to slide horizontally. The ground floor showcases two projecting canted bay windows that have convex curved soffits. The central entrance door consists of four moulded panels and is topped with a flat hood supported by brackets, framed by a moulded architrave. Additionally, there is a flat-topped carriage entrance with gates leading to the rear yard. Inside, some framing is exposed, and the roof features side purlins.
Local climate
The Saffron Hotel (Part) 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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