28, 30 and 32, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. House, shops.
28, 30 and 32, King Street
- WRENN ID
- tired-jamb-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1972
- Type
- House, shops
- Address
- 28, 30 and 32, King Street, Saffron Walden, CB10 1ES
- OS grid reference
- TL 537 384
- Coordinates
- 52.02331, 0.23956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
28, 30, and 32 King Street is a house and two shops dating from the 17th century, with a rear unit added in the late 18th century. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with a brick ground floor and a 20th-century clay tile roof. It has a rectangular plan, is two stories tall with a rear attic, and features a south front elevation with two early 20th-century shop fronts, now fitted with late 20th-century plate glass. The first floor is made of painted brick and has a hipped roof at the west end, with a dentilled eaves cornice. There are three windows on this floor, with wooden flush frames; two are sashes with four panes by four panes, and one has three panes by four panes.
The west end elevation consists of two blocks arranged as a 'double pile', with the front block having a hip roof covered in peg tiles, clearly showing the junction of the front-facing wall and timber framing. The rear block features a stopped slated gable with a ridge stack and a ground floor window that is a 19th-century segment-headed simple sliding sash with plain panes, alongside a 20th-century two-light casement with two panes by two panes. Behind this, set back, is a higher clay-tiled gambrel roof for the attic, which includes a 20th-century casement window with two panes by three panes.
The north rear elevation is mostly obscured but has a central 20th-century two-light casement dormer window in the gambrel roof. The first floor walling is plastered and includes a 19th-century sash window with three panes by four panes, as well as 20th-century casements. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments records a cupboard with a 17th-century panelled door.
Local climate
28, 30 and 32, King Street 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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