3, Market Street

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 MARKET STREET 669-1/1/294 (East side) 01/11/72 No.3

GV II

Shop. Early/mid C19 with C19 and C20 rear additions, C20 refurbishment. Stuccoed brick, peg tile and slate roof. Rectangular plan of principal range and 2 additions. 3 storeys. W front elevation: classical composition but asymmetrical. Stucco work has traces of ashlar lining. Windows and door have consoles. Deep peg-tiled roof, eaves with shaped brackets. 2 stacks, one off centre to N, other at S end, stuccoed with cornice and shaped dentils. Ground floor central doorway with flat cornice hood, overlight and C20 8 panelled door. To N, canted bay window in stuccoed brickwork, plain C19 sashes. To S, original shop and doorway aperture now fully reworked in C20 with 3x5 paned fully glazed door. First and second floor 3 window range, to S from centre all sashes with glazing bars, 3x4 panes, on first floor windows are pedimented in stucco work with decoration within pediments. To N of centre, simple sash window with moulded stucco architrave, glazing bars, 4x6 panes set between first and second storey height. S end elevation to Hill Street. Gable end of range with projecting gable and eaves brackets. Ground floor stuccoed wall extended to E along street with 3 shop windows and doorway in building style, C20 plate glass window and C20 door. Rear, E elevation: ground and first floor has deep C19 slated lean-to with similar lean-to behind wall to Hill Street, segment headed windows and doorways. Rear of principal range red brick to N, S end stuccoed with 5x4 paned sash window. Single casement ramped dormer window at N end of peg-tiled roof. Deep gabled glass-roofed dormer window through lean-to below with 2-light casement, each 2x2 panes. Lean-to extended with flat roofed C20 canopy on stanchions. The irregularity of the facade and cracking of the rear brickwork at the N end suggest the building to be of 2 original units probably timber-framed to the N.

Listing NGR: TL5392138474