Bridge End Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. House. 4 related planning applications.

Bridge End Farmhouse

WRENN ID
leaning-casement-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 November 1972
Type
House
Address
Bridge End Farmhouse, Bridge Street, Saffron Walden
OS grid reference
TL 535 387
Coordinates
52.02557, 0.23642
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bridge End Farmhouse dates from the early 19th century. It is a timber-framed and plastered building with brick, ashlar lining, and a slate and composition tiled roof, featuring red brick stacks. The house has a T-shaped plan.

The north front elevation, which faces east to west, has a principal range with a short wing projecting to the east end. On the ground floor of the principal range is a single casement window with two panes high and three panes wide. A 19th-century moulded window frame in the west end now holds a 20th-century 2-light casement window with four panes high and three panes wide. Above it is an original 19th-century sliding sash window with six panes high and three panes wide. The wing has a 20th-century 3-light casement window with six panes high and four panes wide on the ground floor, and a 2-light casement with four panes high and three panes wide above. A lean-to porch with a catslide roof sits on the west side, and contains a simple doorway. The door has diamond lattice glazing, margin lights, and three sunken lower panels.

The west elevation, facing the street, shows the gable end of the principal range with a 19th-century sliding sash window with four panes high and three panes wide on the ground floor. To the north, a smaller casement window with two panes high and three panes wide is set back, alongside the lean-to porch. Behind this and to the north are side windows of the wing - a ground floor casement with two panes high and four panes wide, and a matching first-floor window.

The east elevation features a gable with a ground-floor casement window (two panes high, three panes wide) and a 2-light casement window (four panes high, three panes wide) above. The wing has a 20th-century door with an upper glazed panel.

The south rear elevation has three window bays, with a principal stack at the roof apex towards the west end. A slender external stack is located on the elevation wall towards the west. Metal casement windows are present: a 2-light window with two panes high and three panes wide on the ground floor at the east end, and two 2-light windows with four panes high and two panes wide on the first floor at the west end. There appears to have been a building break east of the lesser stack, which suggests the plan may have originally been L-shaped.

Local climate

Bridge End Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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