Farmhouse At Bridgefoot Farm

House. Dating from the mid-15th century, this is an open hall house with two crosswings. A hall was floored over and a chimney was built in the late 16th century. A rear wing was added in the late 17th or early 18th century, and a north crosswing was demolished before a lean-to wash house was built against the north side of the rear wing. The house is timber-framed on a stucco sill, with roughcast and weatherboarding on the ground floor of the north end and remains of pargeting on the east front. It has steep, old red tile roofs.

The house is a two-story, T-plan configuration facing east, with a crosswing to the south, a large gabled two-story and attic wing projecting to the rear, and a small gabled rear stair tower in line with the large central chimney that was built in the former hall against the remaining original crosswing. The east front has irregular fenestration, with a door under the jettied and gabled crosswing on the left, and a plastered and tiled lean-to at the south end. It has flush box sash windows, generally with 8/8 panes. A small, two-light, ovolo molded mullioned window is on the upper floor closet beside the chimney. A blocked window to the chamber over the north end has been partly opened up and a single casement inserted. A tall red brick chimney rises through the front slope of the roof with four conjoined polygonal shafts of differing forms. Sash windows are on the stair and upper floor of the crosswing at the rear, but the rear wing has a jettied gable top overhang protecting the three-light leaded casement attic window. A two-story, late 17th century canted bay window with transomed casements and a gabled roof sits above. A tall, formerly external, chimney is on the north side of the rear wing and has two square diagonal shafts.

The hall and crosswing have clasped-purlin roofs. The hall has a cambered and chamfered tie-beam and a cambered collar-beam. Jowled posts are visible, including one on the outside of the north end, relating to the demolished north crosswing. Curved tension bracing and close studding are exposed internally in the north end wall. A deep molded wooden lintol is present above the 16th-century kitchen fireplace. The soffits to the floor beams inserted in the hall are carved in relief with a regular strapwork pattern of rectangles and ovals. The south wing has large square panels with a mid-rail in the framing.