Bridge House

Bridge House comprises two houses, originally built as a schoolhouse and schoolmaster's house in 1838 as part of the Walton Hall Estate. The building is constructed of brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with stone detailing. It has steep gabled roofs covered in Westmorland green slate, and the chimneys feature diminishing octagonal flues. A picturesque, T-shaped block, the schoolhouse forms the head of the ‘T’ and the schoolmaster’s house forms the leg. The schoolhouse is two storeys high plus an attic, with two windows to each lower storey and one window in the gable of the attic. The schoolmaster’s house features a projecting gabled porch with a Jacobean doorway, a window to each side, and two gabled half-dormers. The building has projecting sandstone plinths. The windows are timber-mullioned and transomed, with leaded glazing in octagonal and diamond panes set in iron casements, including a hipped bay window on the side of the schoolhouse. A rear extension, containing school closets and a wash-house with a hipped slate roof and a shaped chimney, is attached to the schoolhouse by yard walls. Internally, the houses have four-panel doors with decorative moulding, simple staircases, and moulded plaster cornices to the former schoolroom, which includes a bay window.