Bradford House And Adjoining Garden Walls

Bradford House is a house dating from the late 17th century, built on an earlier site. It has been altered and extended in around 1770 and 1930. The house is constructed of dressed, coursed sandstone rubble with sandstone ashlar additions, and has plain tiled roofs with gable-end parapets. Massive brick stacks are topped with ashlar caps. The house has an H-shaped plan, with portions of two and three storeys, and includes a cellar.

The north front has a variety of windows, many with moulded keyblocks. The fenestration is irregular on the central part of the facade. The windows are mostly 12-pane sashes, although one ground floor window is 9-pane. These are later insertions, as is the central entrance, which has a Palladian design featuring an open pediment resting on two pairs of pilasters. Each pilaster pair frames a 6-pane window, enclosing a central round-headed archway. The door itself has six raised and fielded panels, topped with a barred segmental fanlight. The left gable end features two ground floor cross-casements, alongside two first floor 12-pane sashes and two second floor 2-light casements. The right gable end has two 12-pane sashes on both the ground and first floors. Both gable ends have a moulded string at attic level, with oval windows in the gable apex.

Inside, the house retains the original 17th-century roof structure and a large sandstone fireplace. A room on the front right of the ground floor retains its full Georgian interior, with ornate gilded plasterwork featuring a foliated design, panelled walls, and a decorative chimneypiece. 1930 service wings extend from the left side of the house.

A sandstone wall dating back to the 17th century adjoins the rear left side of the house, running south for approximately 30 yards, standing about 10 feet high, and including an archway directly adjacent to the house. A three-yard, west-facing return wall is constructed of 17th-century brick. Another 17th-century brick wall with sandstone capping runs along the front right corner of the house, extending west for about 24 yards before returning south for 35 yards. This wall is mostly about 15 feet high, although halfway along the south return, it lowers to a height of approximately 10 feet, incorporating a wrought iron gate.