Bridge House

Bridge House is a house that originally included a butcher's shop and has since been converted into two cottages, now under single ownership. The house likely dates from the mid-18th century and may have replaced a 16th-century building, while the butcher's shop was added in the early 19th century.

The exterior features timber framing that is rendered and colorwashed, except for the right side elevation, which is tile-hung. It has a Kentish peg tiled roof with an off-center brick chimney stack and a catslide roof at the rear. The building has two storeys and three windows. Although the windows are now 20th-century casements, the beam above the first-floor window indicates that they were originally diamond mullioned casements. The front door is located to the left, but it was originally centered, creating a lobby entrance. There is a plinth at the base. The rear elevation reveals exposed timbers of thin scantling. Attached to the left is a one-storey brick butcher's shop with a rendered and colorwashed front and a tiled roof that slopes over the front, supported by four wooden piers. This verandah is a 20th-century replacement of an earlier structure. The butcher's shop features two original fixed light windows, with the left window having been altered from a door.

Inside, the hall showcases rough-hewn chestnut beams, and there is one four-panelled door and one six-panelled door. The lounge has ceiling beams that are covered, but it features an open fireplace (which was opened out in 1995) with a large wooden bressumer that has a salt hole and a brick fireback, with the lower courses made of 16th-century brickwork. The dining room has exposed beams, while the kitchen displays the exposed wall-frame of rough-hewn timbers. The stairwell also features rough-hewn timbers. On the first floor, there is an original beam above the window with sockets for diamond mullions and a groove for shutters, along with three plank doors. The roof is constructed with purlins and rafters.

Historically, Bridge House is believed to have once been part of the Stonewall Farm estate. In the 1841 Census, Thomas Duddy is recorded as a butcher, and by the 1851 Census, his wife Elizabeth had taken over the business. Thomas Duddy's father, also named Thomas, was a butcher and was buried in St Mary's churchyard in Hunton in 1830.