Bridge Farm House

PALGRAVE LING ROAD (SOUTH SIDE) TM 17 NW 2/71 - Bridge Farm House

GV II

House. C15, part rebuilt and altered in C16, stack inserted mid C17, reroofed and part cased in C19. Timber frame, roughcast with some colourwashed brick casing. Pantiled roofs. Originally a Wealden house with both wings rebuilt and hall floored during C16. A half H on plan, 2 bay hall, 2 bay solar cross wing to left projecting slightly and 3 bay broader service wing to right projecting further forward. 2 storeys and attics. Screens passage entrance with a panelled architraved door, a large C17 casement window to left, 12 panes with a large central mullion. First floor 2 and 3-light casements with early leaded panes. Post to central truss is shafted with capital to a curved brace to projecting tie beam over wall plate. C19 eaves overhang. Large axial ridge stack at upper end of hall, rebuilt sawtooth shaft. Solar wing, originally jettied and underbuilt in C17, has C19 casements, wavy bargeboards to steep gable. Inner return of service wing is jettied with a curved brace to dragon beam, jetty to front underbuilt with C19 brick facing, segmental headed casements, bargeboarded gable. Axial ridge stack between centre and rear bays of service wing, rebuilt sawtooth shaft. Right return C19 lean-to outshut. Roof retains original hipped form to rear. Continuous rear elevation has a break in plinth between hall and solar wing, scattered casements and blocked screens passage doorway. Interior: hall has original moulded semi-octagonal corbels for arched braces on posts of central truss, inserted floor has complex hollow and roll moulded crossed binding beams with roll moulded joists. Solar wing has moulded shafts to curved braces to formerly jettied front. Service wing has stop chamfered dragon beam. Stair behind stack altered in C18 with splat balusters on landing, 4 centred brick arch to first floor fireplace. Large cambered tie beam to central hall truss retains mortices for large arched braces and off centre crown post. Some C17 panelling, shutter grooves and early doors.

Listing NGR: TM1105579277