Bredfield House And Walls Of The Walled Garden

Bredfield House is a mid-18th century building, originally a garden house, with 20th-century additions, situated off Woobridge Road. It is accompanied by walls enclosing two rectangular walled gardens. The house is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, incorporating black headers, with a plain tile roof. It is single-storey with attics, and connected to the walled gardens.

The south front is divided into two sections. The right-hand portion, from the 18th century, is slightly projecting and has three bays with cambered heads and 3x4 pane sash windows. The brickwork between the first two windows appears to have been replaced. A band of three bricks runs above this, and a cornice with projecting headers sits below the eaves. To the left is a recessed 20th-century addition of two bays, with similar sash windows. Dormer windows with two lights are set into the attic on the right, while a similar window faces left. The right-hand flank is the entrance front and features a projecting wing, belonging to the original 18th century structure. This wing displays walling with fixed headers and the band of three bricks. A 20th-century chimney breast, with offsets and a single flue, is centrally positioned. The recessed portion to the right of the wing houses a doorway with a six-panel door and a debased classical porch. A two-light casement is to the right of the doorway, with a two-light and a three-light casement window on the first floor.

Inside, the former garden room, now the drawing room, features painted panelling with raised and fielded panels above and below the chair rail, and a dentil cornice. The western wall presents a tripartite arrangement separated by fluted pilasters with moulded bases and caps, and projecting cornice above. The chimney piece has a trellis pattern in relief to the frieze, hollow dentils to the cornice, and brackets on either side, possibly dating to the late 18th century. A raised and fielded panel is above the mantelpiece. An arched niche with a shell motif and fluted head sits to the left, with pilaster strips and a keystone. The bay to the right formerly contained a similar arrangement, but has been altered to form a door surround.

The two walled gardens extend northwards from the south front. They are enclosed by walls approximately 10 feet high, with basket-arched openings in the southern and middle walls. A lean-to glasshouse is situated in the centre of the south face of the north wall. A single-storey building, adapted from farm buildings in the 20th century and adjoining the eastern wall, is not part of this listing.