{"id":3100,"date":"2018-09-29T13:18:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T13:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2018-09-29T13:18:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T13:18:54","slug":"25-27-church-street-saffron-walden-essex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=3100","title":{"rendered":"25-27 Church Street, Saffron Walden, Essex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ChurchSt_0251.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3137\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ChurchSt_0251.jpg\" alt=\"frontage\" width=\"451\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignbottom size-full wp-image-3137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ChurchSt_0251.jpg 451w, https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ChurchSt_0251-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 85vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <em>Invitation to View<\/em><br \/>\nI visited this medieval house under the &#8216;Invitation to View&#8217; scheme in August 2018.  25-27 was once part of the long closed Sun Inn.  It dates approximately from the late 14th century and is particularly well known for its 17th century pargeting (decorative external render).  The interior also contains much interesting historic fabric.<br \/>\nWhen I visited, the house was unmodernised, but it is currently the object of renovation. Each of the two houses (now connected) has two principal rooms downstairs and two bedrooms above in no. 27 and three in no.25. There are cellars under no.27, and small flint-walled courtyards at the rear.<br \/>\nThe structure is predominately timber frame with a &#8216;crown post&#8217; roof. The spaces within the timber frame are infilled with wattle and daub, with some brick infill.<\/p>\n<p>The pargeting on no 25-27 is of the rare raised form, and includes two unique giant figures, together with birds, foliage, various architectural motifs, a dog and even a stocking.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3138\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3138\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ChurchSt_0250.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3138\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ChurchSt_0250-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Frontage, right\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3138\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frontage, right<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_3139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3139\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ChurchSt_0252.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3139\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ChurchSt_0252-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Frontage, center\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3139\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frontage, center<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_3140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3140\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ChurchSt_0253.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3140\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ChurchSt_0253-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Former Sun Inn frontage\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3140\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Sun Inn frontage<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_3142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3142\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ChurchSt_0255.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3142\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ChurchSt_0255-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Typical interior\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3142\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Typical interior<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_3143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3143\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ChurchSt_0259.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3143\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ChurchSt_0259-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Typical interior\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3143\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Typical interior<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invitation to View I visited this medieval house under the &#8216;Invitation to View&#8217; scheme in August 2018. 25-27 was once part of the long closed Sun Inn. It dates approximately from the late 14th century and is particularly well known for its 17th century pargeting (decorative external render). The interior also contains much interesting historic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=3100\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;25-27 Church Street, Saffron Walden, Essex&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3146,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions\/3146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}