Bridge Farmhouse

WEM RURAL C.P. PEPPERSTREET SJ 53 SW 6/152 Bridge Farmhouse - GV II Farmhouse. Late C16 or early C17, partly clad or rebuilt in mid-C18 and C19 red brick with later additions and alterations. Red brick, replacing or encasing timber frame; machine tile roofs. Earliest part is 2-bay gabled cross-wing to left with long hall range to right; this has a late C18 two-storey gabled range to rear and a brick outshut in space between this and cross-wing. 2 storeys with gable-lit attic to hall range, which has floor band to left part. Irregular fenestration: cross-wing has late C19 segmental-headed casement-on each floor; latticed cast-iron window on each floor to left of hall range and C19 casements directly below eaves to left and right with mid-C20 casement between; mid-C20 canted bay windows flank gabled brick porch with dentilled eaves cornice to right of centre, late C19 half-glazed inner door with segmental-headed rectangular overlight. Segmental-headed boarded door to front gable of cross-wing on left. Prominent red brick ridge stack with 3 rebated shafts of star section and base with toothed capping to left of centre; integral end stacks to right of hall range and to C18 gabled addition. Jowled wall post to rear left corner of cross- wing. Interior: chamfered cross beam and infilled inglenook fireplace with chamfered-wooden lintel to left ground-floor room of hall range; deep- chamfered cross beams and heavy joists to ground-floor room of cross- wing and beam and joists also exposed to right first-floor room of hall range. Tie beam of central truss to cross-wing visible and unbroken wall-plate at junction with hall range shows that cross-wing is earliest part of house.

Listing NGR: SJ5282932710