Ashcroft Court

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CHURCH STREET 669-1/1/106 (South side) 28/11/51 Nos.19 AND 21 Ashcroft Court

GV II*

2 houses and shop converted in late C20 for office use. c1800, fronting earlier framed building. Timber-framed, gault brick, peg-tiled roof, red brick stack. Plan U shape of street range with rear framed wings. 2 storeys and cellars. Front N elevation: long brick range with parapet, brick string course and end pilasters. Roof hipped at W end. 3 window range, segment headed on first floor, all early C19 but repaired, sashes with glazing bars, 4x4 panes, ground floor E window as above, central window C20 tripartite sash with glazing bars, 1x2, 4x2, 1x2 panes. W end C20 reconstructed C19 butchers shop, long fascia head board over shop and passageway. Shop has C20 tripartite sash window with glazing bars, 1x4, 4x4, 1x4 panes, doorway canted into passage, door of 4 panels. Adjacent C20 2-leaf boarded stable door. Passageway opposite E side, C20 4-panel door, passageway has 2 cross tie-beams and axial beam with C19 iron strap ties, also suspension hooks. 2 arched cellar recesses below centre window, blocked below E window with pavement grille. W end elevation: street unit roof gable stopped at rear with wing at lower level. C17 trapped side purlin construction on wing S end gable mainly timber-framed and plastered. Ground floor of street unit in brick. E end elevation: similar with S end gable revealing timber wall plate and rafter. RCHM records the survival of a mullioned window, possibly not in original position, also the presence of 2 C15 roof trusses said to survive above ceiling level.

Listing NGR: TL5377838562