Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 AUDLEY ROAD 669-1/1/16 (North side) 01/11/72 No.51 Audley Cottage

II

House. Mid C19. Flint with red brick dressings to doors, corner quoins and banding, roofs of shaped slates. Cruciform plan of principal block gable end to street with E side porch and opposite side wing. 2 storeys to street, 3 storeys at rear. Front S elevation to street: gable end of one window range, shaped barge-boards and finial. Ground floor window, rectangular bay with hipped shaped tile roof, window of 3 casement lights with upper transom, glazing bars, each light 2x4 and 2x2 panes. First floor window has label and moulded brick shallow corbel, central stile, double casement window each casement 2x4 panes. To E, 2-storey brick porch with ground floor segment headed window, slate roof with shaped ridge tiles. To W, taller wing in flint with ground floor doorway, 3 paned overlight, door has upper glazing, 2x3 panes. Stack behind frontage on W side has pair of octagonal shafts. Rear, N elevation: central block of 3 storeys, gables similar to front but simpler. Ground floor and first floor windows in house style. Garden basement walling of red brick with 2-light casement window, each light 3x4 panes. Pair of octagonal shafts to rear stack behind gable on W side. E side, 2-storey porch and additional ground floor red brick lean-to with C20 single light casement window. On W side, C20 single storey flat roofed extension projects into garden with French window and side lights, fully glazed, 4x2x5 panes, boarded door below in W side. E side elevation: 2 window range plus central 2 storeyed porch. Porch has shaped barge-boards and finial, ground floor, 4-centred arched doorway. Door has 4 raised panels. Lean-to on N side of porch clearly added. Windows all in house style, upper pair though blind. W side elevation: partly obscured. Central wing has shaped barge-board and finial. Stack each side, N and S, each with pair of diagonal shafts. First floor window in wing and S end in general house style. INTERIOR: essentially plain. One original arched headed cast-iron fireplace. Original stair with turned newel post and shaped handrail.

Listing NGR: TL5390538198

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