Bridge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. House. 4 related planning applications.

Bridge Farmhouse

WRENN ID
endless-garret-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1985
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

House. Built in the late medieval period, with alterations in the 17th and 19th centuries. It is timber framed, with plaster on the exterior and a roof covered in handmade red clay tiles. The main range has three bays facing southeast, and a two-bay crosswing is located at the left end. An axial stack stands at the junction between the main range and crosswing, and a 19th-century external stack is on the left side of the crosswing. There are single-story lean-to extensions at the rear angle and at the right end. A two-story gabled porch is situated in the front angle. The house has two stories and an attic. The ground floor has one early 19th-century sash window with 16 lights, along with two late 19th-century sashes with 4 lights each. The first floor has four late 19th-century sashes with 4 lights each, and a 19th-century casement window in the gable of the attic. There is a 19th-century half-glazed door.

The interior features lodged plain floor joists of horizontal section running longitudinally in the right bay, likely the original parlour/solar bay. A 17th-century inserted floor with an axial beam and exposed vertical section joists is in the hall, but the ground floor is otherwise fully plastered. On the first floor of the crosswing, there are jowled posts, some exposed studding, and a cambered tiebeam with arched braces. The roofs were entirely rebuilt in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house retains its original medieval three-part plan, with a stack inserted in the left bay of the hall. However, the internal and external plaster obscures the frame of the hall range, making it unclear whether the walls of the hall were raised in the 17th century or completely rebuilt. The front and back doors remain in their original positions.

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