4, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. Commercial. 1 related planning application.
4, King Street
- WRENN ID
- waiting-postern-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1972
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 4, King Street, Saffron Walden, CB10 1ES
- OS grid reference
- TL 538 385
- Coordinates
- 52.02362, 0.24052
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 King Street is a mid-19th century shop on the ground floor with a library annexe on the first floor, which is part of No. 2. The building has a rectangular plan and is two storeys high, with a stucco roof that is obscured by a parapet. The south front elevation features a first-floor triple arcade consisting of three closely set circular-headed French windows, which are flanked by Corinthian pilasters and have paterae in the spandrels. The archivolts are enriched with fluted leaf designs. A dentilled cornice and parapet are articulated to the bay system below, complemented by rusticated panels. The overall composition is framed at each side by banded rustication. At the eastern end, there is a substantial stack that is rendered and ashlar lined. Each French window has four lights per leaf and is accompanied by a shallow balcony with ornamental cast-iron railings. Inside, the first floor features a plaster ceiling adorned with an anthemion-decorated border, and there is a fireplace that is now blocked.
Local climate
4, 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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