Bridge Cottage

Bridge Cottage is a house dating to the late 16th or early 17th century, located in Barming. The house is timber-framed with brick infilling to the ground floor, although the right-hand end bay has a stone cladding. The front first floor is rendered, while the left-hand gable end is tile-hung. It has a plain tile roof, half-hipped to the left and gabled to the right. A slender 19th-century brick stack with a stone base replaces an earlier, larger stone-based stack to the left gable end, and a further brick stack is located along the ridge towards the left end of the right-hand bay. The windows are irregularly placed, featuring three casements – two 2-light windows and a central 3-light window. Behind the stonework of the right-hand end bay is a 4-light diamond mullion window. A ribbed door is situated under the stack. A single-storey, 19th-century red brick addition extends from the rear of the left-hand gable end. The interior retains exposed timber framing, chamfered beams, and internal tension braces.