Bridge Farmhouse

TL 66 SE 5/52

MOULTON

BRIDGE STREET

Bridge Farmhouse

II

House. Formerly farmhouse, mid C17 with fragmentary C16 core and C18 or C19 alterations. One-and-a-half storeys and attics. Timber-framed and rendered. Thatched roof, half-hipped to left, with thatched gabled casement dormers; axial C17 chimney of red brick. C19 casements. 2-panelled C19 entrance door. A 3-cell house with rear kitchen wing mainly of mid or late C17. The left hand gable wall beside Bridge Street survives in-situ from an earlier house of C15 or C16, with evidence for an unglazed shuttered window; the twin service rooms at this end rebuilt C17. Back-to-back C17 fireplaces to hall and parlour. A bridging joist and fireplace lintel in the hall, and 2 sections of wall plate have trailing leaf carving and are reused from an early C16 house of above-average quality. Divided into 3 cottages late C18 or C19.

Listing NGR: TL6967564489