9 And 11, King Street

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 KING STREET 669-1/1/246 (South side) 01/11/72 Nos.9 AND 11

GV II

House with shop below. Early C16, c1800 and C19. Timber-framed and plastered and partly exposed, also gault brick. Roof hipped and slated. 3 storey, rectangular plan with small reduction in width on W side at rear. Front, N elevation: ground floor, full width early C20 shop windows, plate glass above tiled dwarf wall, glazed doorway. First and second floor of 2-window range, sashes with glazing bars, moulded architraves, first floor 3x4 panes, second floor 3x3 panes. Second floor plastered, first floor has exposed timber framing of regular studding with 4 blocked frieze window of 3 lights each, roll and hollow moulded mullion bars. These are in a continuous line broken by 2 longer window apertures in which present sash windows are set. Peg evidence shows the former site of low-set sills for 2 windows, originally of tripartite frieze type. Also, cuts for windows intermediate in date between the medieval and those extant. A C19 grey brick stack set back on W side. E side elevation to Market Passage: system on frontage continued, C19 shop once continued whole length of range but now S end windows boarded-in, adjacent fully glazed door. Second floor plastered and blank. First floor, exposed timber framing less complete than on front, two 3x4 paned windows similar to N front, one to S is C20 renewal. Heavy central principal storey post with traces of tension braces each side. N end, jowled post also with tension brace. N of centre, blocked medieval 3-light window with moulded mullions. Rear, S elevation: irregular, C19 brick walling. Ground floor, C19 3-cant bay window with slate roof and sashes, also, segment headed doorway with C19 door of 6 recessed panels. First floor, 3 segment headed windows, one has C19 sashes, other 2 C20 double casements. Second floor, one C19 sash window, glazing bars, 3x3 panes and one small C20 casement. INTERIOR: ground floor rebuilt for shop, all C20. First floor, principal framing timbers exposed, posts, plates and tie-beams. At rear, behind brick wall are jowled end posts and centre post chamfered each side down to high stop suggesting site of window either side. A lamb's tongue chamfer stop on the W post suggests a later phase than the front range and the minor inset in the plan on the W side may denote a building break. Second floor, clearly raised over the original wall head at first floor level with hip rafters at all corners.

Listing NGR: TL5382838477