Bridge House

House, dating from the 18th century, with alterations made in the early 19th century. The house is timber-framed and plastered, with a facade of gault brick laid in a Flemish bond pattern, and a roof covered with handmade red plain tiles. It has a rectangular plan facing west, with two chimneys on each side, and a wing extending to the rear right. There is a 2-story lean-to extension to the right.

The front has 2 sashes on the ground floor, each with 12 lights and stone lintels that imitate gauged bricks. Above are 3 sashes, also with 12 lights and crown glass. The central entrance has a 6-panel door, with 4 glazed lower panels, within a doorcase featuring panelled jambs and a soffit, fluted engaged stone columns, and a stone architrave with wreaths on the frieze. There is one stone step leading up to the door. The roof is hipped. The lean-to extension to the right has one late 19th-century sash window with 12 lights on each floor, and a stepped parapet. Cast iron railings run along the front, returning to the house at both ends of the main part. They feature plain bars, floriate terminals, and a gate with octagonal gateposts with bud terminals and scrolled rear stays. The chimneys are constructed of red brick. A yellow brick extension is located to the rear left.

Early 19th-century sash windows are present at the rear of the main block and on both sides of the rear wing. The central entrance hall contains an early 19th-century quarter-turn staircase with a wreathed moulded mahogany handrail, 2 mahogany stick balusters to each tread, reeded mahogany newel posts, scrolled tread ends, and an original mahogany gate at the top. There is a semi-elliptical arch to the right. The house was formerly associated with Little Coggeshall Brewery to the rear left. It was illustrated by J. Greig in Excursions through Essex in 1818 and recorded on a map of 1832 (held at the Essex Record Office).