Bridge House Including Attached Outbuildings At Rear And Gate Pier

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TL8683 BRIDGE STREET 617-1/5/10 (North West side) 03/04/51 No.16 Bridge House including attached outbuildings at rear and gate pier (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET (North West side) No.16 Bridge House, and outbuilding at rear of No.16) (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET (North West side) Brick gate piers at Nos.14 and 16)

GV II

House. Early C18 altered early C19. Flint faced with gault brick and with red brick dressings. Pantiled roof, mostly black-glazed. Facade of 2 storeys and dormer attic in 5 bays. Central 6-panelled door under overlight with 4 ogee panes. Block doorcase with keyblocks and plain pediment. 2 mid C18 sashes right and left with 6/6 glazing bars set in flush frames with exposed boxes. One sash-weight dated 1808 is a replacement. Gauged skewback arches. Platband between floors. 5 similar first-floor sashes beneath moulded brick eaves cornice with modillions. Gabled roof hipped to south-east. 3 gabled dormers fitted with early C19 two-light iron casements. Internal gable-end stack to north-west with a C20 addition. Gate pier, of square section with ball finial, attached to far right of facade. Behind facade is an early C19 hipped staircase extension, and left of this is an early C18 sash with 6/6 glazing bars. INTERIOR: stick baluster staircase added early C19: ramped and wreathed handrail. Roof has chamfered principals and butt purlins. OUTBUILDINGS: running north-east is a range of 2-storey flint and brick-dressed outbuildings under a gabled pantile roof. Roof in 2 pitches, probably reflecting extension in early C19 of late C18 original block. Various stable and carriage house doorways and windows. Heavy interior timbers, re-used. Brick gate piers at Nos 14 & 16 were listed on 10.03.71.

Listing NGR: TL8685183103