Bridge House Including Attached Outbuildings at Rear and Gate Pier is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1951. House. 3 related planning applications.

Bridge House Including Attached Outbuildings at Rear and Gate Pier

WRENN ID
mired-cobalt-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 April 1951
Type
House
Address
Bridge House Including Attached Outbuildings at Rear and Gate Pier, 16, Bridge Street, Thetford
OS grid reference
TL 868 831
Coordinates
52.41401, 0.74596
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bridge House is a house dating from the early 18th century, with alterations made in the early 19th century. It features a flint facade faced with gault brick and red brick dressings, topped by a mostly black-glazed pantiled roof. The building has two storeys and a dormer attic, arranged in five bays. The central entrance has a six-panelled door with an overlight containing four ogee panes, framed by a block doorcase with keyblocks and a plain pediment. On either side of the door are two mid-18th century sash windows with 6/6 glazing bars, set in flush frames with exposed boxes; one of the sashes, dated 1808, is a replacement. The windows are topped by gauged skewback arches, and there is a platband between the floors. The first floor features five similar sashes beneath a moulded brick eaves cornice with modillions. The gabled roof is hipped to the southeast and has three gabled dormers fitted with early 19th century two-light iron casements. There is an internal gable-end stack to the northwest with a 20th-century addition. A square gate pier with a ball finial is attached to the far right of the facade. Behind the main facade is an early 19th century hipped staircase extension, and to the left of this is an early 18th century sash window with 6/6 glazing bars.

Inside, there is a stick baluster staircase added in the early 19th century, featuring a ramped and wreathed handrail. The roof has chamfered principals and butt purlins.

To the northeast, there is a range of two-storey outbuildings constructed of flint and brick, dressed under a gabled pantile roof. The roof has two pitches, likely indicating an extension made in the early 19th century to a late 18th century original block. The outbuildings contain various stable and carriage house doorways and windows, and feature heavy interior timbers that have been reused. The brick gate piers at Nos. 14 and 16 were previously listed on March 10, 1971.

Local climate

Bridge House Including Attached Outbuildings at Rear and Gate Pier 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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