The Old Bridge House is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Bridge House
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-belfry-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Windsor MP: Jack Rankin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Bridge House, 43 High Street, Datchet, SL3 9EQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 985 768
- Coordinates
- 51.48223, -0.58172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bridge House is a 19th-century building that fronts an earlier timber-framed house, which is reputed to have been built in 1558. The exterior features whitewashed pebbledash with a parapet and a hipped roof covered in old tiles. The house has two storeys and includes three casement windows with wooden transoms. The south front, located on the right side, has a segmental bow with a first-floor cast-iron balcony. The wooden doorcase is adorned with narrow panelled pilasters and an entablature that features a dentil and modillion cornice. The upper half of the door is glazed with glazing bars, while the lower half consists of two flush panels.
Notably, the south front has an unusual three-centred arched doorway with a "Gothic" fanlight and a surround made of clustered half columns, topped with a cornice that has a fan and pendant motif inspired by vaulting, along with an open dentil pediment. There is a wooden band between the fanlight and the door that is fluted and decorated with quatrefoils at intervals. Additionally, two dormer windows are set behind wooden balustraded panels in the parapet.
Inside, the house features a hall-like room at the rear that incorporates earlier timber beams and carved bosses, which are now used as brackets. There is a large open stone fireplace with a chamfered oak beam above it. The original door to this room has linenfold panels and is likely in its original position. The dining room includes a simple reeded frieze, while the first-floor bedroom showcases late 18th-century timber panelling in a French design and a stone fireplace from the same period.
Local climate
The Old Bridge House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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