Bridehead

Bridehead is a country house situated within its grounds, rebuilt around 1837 by F. P. Robinson, and subsequently extended westwards in the 1850s by B. Ferrey. A north-west wing was demolished in the 20th century. The house is constructed of stone and brick walls, rendered and featuring a plat band with quatrefoils set within lozenges. Small, projecting corner turrets have blind lancet windows at ground floor level. The roof is hipped, of clay tile, with stone stacks at the left and right. There is a string and crenellated parapet.

The east elevation presents 4 windows, each with 4 lights, stone mullions with 4-centred heads, and labels above. The ground floor windows are fixed with wooden frames, featuring glazing bars arranged in a lozenge pattern. The first floor has casement windows. A shield-of-arms is centrally placed within a quatrefoil, with foliage in the spandrels. The front door has a 3-centred head and a recessed-panel design with lancet heads and bowtel mouldings. A wooden porch features quatrefoil columns, winged elements, and a plain entablature above. The south elevation, of 7 bays, incorporates tall cross-transom windows, and continues the plat band, cornice, and parapet detailing from the east elevation. A library bay, designed by Ferrey, is located at the west end, distinguished by a polygonal corner buttress. A conservatory, now used as a swimming pool, is fitted with windows featuring 4-centred heads with a central mullion.

The interior of the front ground floor rooms features early 19th-century panelling and doors, all with ribbed panels, and gadrooned cornice-mouldings. A fireplace in the study is constructed of black marble, with incised Ionic pilasters and an anthemion motif. The Prayer Room, designed by Ferrey, is divided into three bays with 4-centred arches, responds, and plain capitals. The room contains a fireplace and bookcases in the Perpendicular style, with crenellated parapets. The library, also by Ferrey, retains original library fittings including bookcases extending to 2 metres, with a fleuroned string. Octagonal responds are present alongside a fireplace with a large ogee head and crenellated cornice and a grate. The compartmented ceiling has moulded ribs, fully bossed at the intersections.

On the first floor, the right front room contains a stone fireplace with a very depressed-arch head and straight-chamfered jambs, stopped at the ends, which is a reset feature dating to the 16th century. The left front room similarly displays a reset 16th-century stone doorhead, 4-centred with recessed spandrels, and a stone fireplace of a similar design.