Bridge House

RICKINGHALL INFERIOR BURY ROAD (SOUTH SIDE) TM 07 SW 3/114 Bridge House 15.11.54 GV II

House. Late C16, extended and altered early C19 and C20. Timber frame, plastered with panelled pargetting, brick additions. Steeply pitched machine tiled roof. 5 bay 3 cell lobby entrance plan, possibly larger originally. 2 storeys and attic. Continuous jettied front with lobby entrance to left of centre. C20 2 and 3-light glazing bar casements, transomed on ground floor, coving to jetty which is boarded, modillioned eaves cornice. Cross axial stack to left of centre between hall and parlour, rebuilt cap. Left end part opening 3-light leaded casements, transomed on ground floor. Right end glazing bar and leaded casements. To rear a catslide roof over an early C19 colourwashed brick lean-to behind parlour with mixed lattice leaded and glazing bar casements; behind hall on first floor two 4-light cavetto mullioned windows, a 2-light lattice leaded casement, a 1 storey C19 lean-to with an entrance, leaded casements, a C20 additon to rear right. Interior: hall and service end stop chamfered axial binding beams, reset C17 panelling in hall; parlour close studding, a 3-light cavetto mullioned window, altered ceiling with double roll moulded crossed binding beams and mid-rail, some runout roll moulded joists and some stop chamfered joists. First floor arched braces from jowled posts of rebated section to tie beams, ceiled with stop chamfered crossed binding beams and joists. Original attic with high quality chamfered double butt purlin roof with cambered collars, large arched wind braces.

Listing NGR: TM0376274973