Brickwork, Landscaping & Driveways in Saffron Walden

A historic town with strict protection

Saffron Walden has one of the largest concentrations of listed buildings in Essex, and a wide conservation area covering the centre. Timber-framed houses with decorative pargeting stand beside Georgian red brick fronts and Victorian terraces, and old boundary walls often combine soft red brick with flint.

For owners this means two things. First, work to a listed building or its boundary walls is likely to need listed building consent from Uttlesford District Council. Second, even where consent is not needed, the right result depends on handmade or reclaimed bricks, lime mortar and traditional copings rather than modern wire-cut bricks and cement.

Beyond the centre

Away from the historic core, Saffron Walden has plenty of twentieth-century and recent housing where the work is more familiar: replacing tired driveways, laying patios and building garden and retaining walls on the town’s sloping plots.