The Bridewell With Forecourt And Garden Walls

BOTESDALE BRIDEWELL LANE (NORTH TM 07 NE and TM 0475 EAST SIDE) 2/1 and 6/1 The Bridewell with 29.7.55 Forecourt and Garden Walls (formerly listed as Bridewell House) - II House, former Bridewell. c.1810, altered C19 and C20. Red brick. Hipped machine tiled roof. 3 bays. 2 storeys. Central entrance with steps up to a part raised and part glazed fielded panelled door, architrave with blocked semi-circular fanlight, later hipped open porch on octagonal timber uprights. Glazing bar sashes in shallow reveals, gauged brick flat arched heads, timber sills; first floor outer 16 pane sashes. Offset plinth, dentilled brick eaves. Returns have extruded axial stacks with double offsets, mixed casements and sashes with cambered heads. To rear an extruded kitchen stack in a continuous pantiled flint and brick lean-to outshut. Interior: mid C19 staircase with slat balusters, moulded and ramped handrail. Attached to rear lean-to at sides are rebuilt outshuts linking to original walls of 3 to 4 metres in height with rounded coping, offset plinth, some pilaster strips. The walls enclose a garden to rear of about 25 metres square and continue forward about 25m to sides of forecourt. At front small ramps up to piers with ball finials, iron railings on low quadrant spur walls further forward.

Listing NGR: TM0499875662