Bridge House Pinetree House

ROTHBURY BRIDGE STREET NU 0501 (East side) 25/265 Bridge House and Pinetree House GV II

House, now divided into two dwellings. c.1790, extended to rear soon after; mid-C19 kitchen wing. Subdivided 1935. Squared tooled stone; Welsh slate roof with one old brick stack. West elevation (front of Bridge House) 2 storeys, 2 bays: central part-glazed 5-panel door in wooden doorcase with fluted pilasters and cornice; renewed 12-pane sash windows. Roof hipped to right; old brick stack on left built against taller gable end of adjacent house. 2-bay right return shows 12-pane sashes to right, and C20 12-pane casement under renewed 12-pane sash on left; stepped-and-banded ridge stack. Rear elevation (now front of Pinetree House) shows arched stair window and 12-pane sashes to left; the lower, with boarded panel below sill, was formerly a French window. To right is projecting gabled kitchen wing, with renewed 12-pane sashes on 1-bay inner return.

Interior: 6-panel doors throughout. Pinetree House has drawing room with fireplace in stepped stone surround under moulded stone mantelpiece, flanked by segmental-arched recesses; floral scroll cornice. Straight stair with stick balusters and ramped moulded handrail; stairhead has egg-and-dart cornice.

The house is said to have been built for the Ogle family's stewards.

Listing NGR: NU0590501648