Bridewell Museum

Bridewell Museum is a former house that has been converted into a museum. The building dates back to the 15th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed from flint rubble, featuring knapped flint with stone dressings on the north facade, and includes brick elements, particularly in the north wall plinth. The roofs are covered with pantiles, and the building has an L-shaped plan.

On the north facade, there are two storeys above a plinth and undercrofts, with five widely spaced first-floor windows. These windows consist of five paired, two-centre arch lights that have dripstones and chamfered stone jambs. The 18th-century entry is located at the extreme left, featuring a two-centre brick arch and a dripcourse, with re-used medieval brick jambs and 20th-century part-glazed doors. Each first-floor window is adorned with two moulded stone ogee arches with mouchette spandrels, all set within a square frame. The dripcourse extends down to the tracery springing and continues into a stringcourse. A simple 19th-century box cornice with brick kneelers completes the facade, which was built in two phases, marked by a break between the second and third windows from the right.

The south facade is faced with 18th-century brick and has two storeys plus an undercroft, featuring five bays. The central panelled door is framed by a Doric surround with an open pediment. Sash windows with glazing bars and brick segmental arches are present throughout. The west wall of the former hall range also has an 18th-century brick facing, with two storeys plus an undercroft and four bays. Sash windows are consistent here as well, and there are a pair of service doors at the north end of the former hall, which have chamfered stone jambs and moulded two-centre arches, along with remnants of a dripmould.

Inside, there are two brick barrel-vaults on the ground floor at the east end of the north range. The building features an extensive series of brick-built undercrofts with heavily constructed double-order diagonal and cross-ribs, and wall arches beneath the north range. Three piers support ten compartments of quadripartite vaulting, which exhibit complex rib patterns beneath the former hall. The museum is scheduled as an Ancient Monument.