Bridge House

Bridge House is a house dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th and 18th centuries. It features a timber frame that is plastered, with some areas of weatherboarding, and is roofed with handmade red plain tiles. The house has four bays aligned northwest to southeast, with the entrance located at the northwest end. There is an axial stack from around 1600 in the second bay from the southeast end, and a late 17th-century stair tower to the northeast of it. A 20th-century extension has been added to the southeast of the stair tower. The building has two storeys and attics.

The northwest elevation, which faces Feering Hill, has a two-window range of 18th or early 19th-century sashes with 12 lights, and one window with 4 + 4 lights on the first floor, some of which contain crown glass. There is a six-panel door at the left end of the elevation, with the top two panels glazed, set in an eared doorcase with a pediment head. The roof is hipped, and there is a wooden dentilled eaves cornice.

On the northeast elevation of the stair tower, which is partly weatherboarded, there is an 18th-century transomed three-light window with wrought iron casement and rectangular leading. The four-bay range was originally built in the 16th century as a crosswing to an earlier hall house located to the northeast, now known as No. 18 (Timbers). The entrance elevation originally had a long jetty facing the road bridge over the River Blackwater. A bridge was constructed on the current line of Feering Hill around 1780, and the house was likely re-styled to face Feering Hill around that time. The jetty is now underbuilt.

Inside, there are moulded axial and transverse beams throughout, with hollow-chamfered joists of horizontal section featuring run-out stops in the two northwest bays, and plain joists of horizontal section in the southeast bay. There are two wood-burning hearths back to back made of 0.33 metre brickwork, both with replaced mantel beams. The late 17th-century open-well stair is of high quality, featuring moulded strings and handrails, along with twist-turned balusters, which merit special care.