3, Bridewell Street

WYMONDHAM

TF1101 BRIDEWELL STREET 655-1/11/21 (North side) 29/12/50 No.3

GV II

Formerly known as: Oak House. House and shop, now domestic only. Early C17, probably 1616. Timber-framed with brick. Roof of black glazed pantiles to front, concrete tiles to rear. Shop to front with domestic hall in rear cross wing. 2 storeys and dormer attic. Plastered facade. Central panelled door in original sunk-quadrant moulded frame with stops. Mullioned 3-light overlight. To left is the C17 shop front, with a similar timber surround, fitted with detachable C19 windows. One early C19 sash to right with glazing bars. Jettied first floor lit through 2 late C18 3-light metal casements. Gabled roof carrying a gabled dormer with its casement. Stepped brick east gable with internal stack. West side of rear hall wing jettied, but now underbuilt. One 3-light early C19 Gothick casement to right under part of coved jetty. Various other 3-light casements. INTERIOR. Close studded frame with jowled principal studs and straight corner braces. Passage formerly led from door to interior by-passing shop, but with access to it. Winders by stacks and by stack to hall range. Spine beams with sunk-quadrant mouldings and tongue stops. Rear wing with chamfered spine beam. First floor room over ground-floor hall with sunk-quadrant moulded bridging beam terminating in tongue and side stops. Roof mostly renewed but was of clasped purlin type with cut-back principal rafters, and cambered collars.

Listing NGR: TG1112501490