6, King Street

This is a mid-19th century office building with a shop on the ground floor, situated in Saffron Walden. The building is constructed of brick, originally colourwashed, with a slate roof. The front elevation to King Street has three storeys and a two-window range, with the roof hidden behind a plain parapet featuring a dentilled cornice. The first-floor windows have semicircular heads, with panelled, splayed reveals and diagonally set consoles supporting a lower cornice and fluted architraves. These are topped with an upper cornice also set diagonally over the consoles, and contain double casement windows with 2x3 panes, including 2 panes in the arched head. The second-floor windows are similarly segment-headed, with moulded architraves carrying moulded leaf cresting, and contain sash windows with thin glazing bars, arranged as 3x3 panes, with the upper bars curved to mirror the segmental head. The shop front has early 20th-century plate glass windows and a recessed doorway. The shop front's frieze lights are currently boarded, and the door features central and upper glazing with a lower panel and blocked, shaped cresting above. A brick western elevation, facing Lime Tree Court, has a single window range of two units with a slate roof behind a parapet. One section has a semicircular-headed doorway, now fitted with a 20th-century door and blocked overlight, alongside a 19th-century semicircular-headed sash window with glazing bars (4x3 panes) creating narrow marginal panes and a radial pane at the head. A second semicircular-headed window, a casement, occupies the upper level of this section, mirroring the glazing pattern of the window below. The adjacent section has a 19th-century three-cant bay window with a hipped slate roof and segment-headed windows to the canted sections. A segment-headed doorway provides access, with a 20th-century six-panel door. The first floor has a 19th-century segment-headed sash window with glazing bars (3x2 panes), and a small 20th-century casement window, with a blocked segment-headed window aperture to the south. A similar 19th-century window is located on the second floor. The interior retains its original staircase, featuring shaped balusters and a handrail, with simple end brackets to the treads.