Bridge Farmhouse and Old Post Office Weir Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1987. Farmhouse.

Bridge Farmhouse and Old Post Office Weir Cottage

WRENN ID
plain-floor-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
New Forest
Constituency
New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 March 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Bridge Farmhouse and Old Post Office Weir Cottage, 39, A338, Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley
OS grid reference
SU 150 096
Coordinates
50.88609, -1.78768
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The listed buildings comprise a pair of cottages, Bridge Farmhouse and Old Post Office, and a separate cottage, Weir Cottage, all situated near Ibsley, alongside the A338.

Bridge Farmhouse and Old Post Office date to the early 19th century and have undergone alterations. They are built of red brick in a stretcher bond pattern with a thatched roof. The cottages are of 1½ storeys and two bays each. Each cottage features a central boarded door sheltered by a hipped thatched hood supported by wooden posts. Flanking the doors are windows with three segmental-headed lights, chamfered wood mullions, and stucco hood moulds. Above, similar two-light windows are set within eyebrow dormers. The windows have diamond-leaded casements. The roof is hipped, with a diagonally-set ridge stack and an external stack at the right-hand end. A single-storey addition has been made to the left side of Bridge Farmhouse.

Weir Cottage is a later building, dating to the late 15th century and 17th century, with alterations in the 18th and 20th centuries. It is a timber-framed structure with painted brick infill and a thatched roof. The cottage is of 1½ storeys and originally consisted of three bays and a smoke bay, later with an added hip bay. The front features a plank door under a swept-down hood located in the second bay from the left. C19 or C20 three-light casements are present in each bay. The smoke bay is now centrally placed with a hip bay to the right. Eyebrow dormers with two lights are above the left-hand bays. The roof is half-hipped to the left and hipped to the right. There is a stack above the bay and another at the right-hand end of the ridge.

Local climate

Bridge Farmhouse and Old Post Office Weir Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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