Bridge Cottage

Bridge Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with remodelling and extensions in the 18th and 19th centuries, and a further extension circa the late 19th century. The house is timber-framed and has been re-fronted in dressed, whitewashed stone. It has a steeply-pitched Welsh slate roof with gabled ends, and brick axial and gable-end stacks.

Originally a small one- or two-room cottage, the centre room was heated by a large fireplace in an axial stack, with an outshut to the rear containing a winder staircase. A small, unheated room to the north was later partitioned and now has a fireplace in the front room, within the axial stack. A parlour was added to the south in the 18th or early 19th century. In the late 19th or early 20th century, a single-storey service wing was added to the rear of the north end.

The west front is asymmetrical, with three bays on the left and one bay on the right. The left three bays have early 19th-century, three-light casement windows on the ground floor and two-light casements above, all with glazing bars and keystones in flat arches. A central doorway has a cambered arch and plank door. There is a recessed bay to the right, which is blind; the right (south) gable end has casement windows with glazing bars. At the rear, the roof extends as a catslide over a timber-framed outshut on the left and a loggia on the right, with a small gabled dormer above. The rear has small casement windows, and a single-storey, gable-ended, painted brick wing on the right. Timber framing is exposed on the north end gable.

Inside, the central room has a deeply chamfered axial beam with run-out stops, unchamfered joists, and a large fireplace that is partly blocked and has a boarded bressumer. A later lobby with partitions now provides direct entry to the centre room. The small room to the north of the stack has a simple chimneypiece with a keyblock, imposts, and shelf. The right (south) room, the parlour, has a roughly chamfered axial beam with run-out stops, and a simple Victorian chimneypiece and grate. A winder staircase is present. The chambers have chamfered axial beams and exposed joists. The roof includes a central truss with a low collar and crossed principals at the apex, trenched purlins, and a later softwood common-rafter roof built above. Old plank doors remain.