Bridgethorpe And Front Wall To Garden

This is a detached house built in the early 18th century, with additions and alterations made around 1840. The house is constructed of brick in Flemish bond, the front being blocked and stuccoed. It has a hipped slate roof. The original layout comprised a single-depth house with principal rooms on either side of a central entrance hall containing stairs, a rear service wing, and later 19th-century extensions behind the main range. External brick stacks have set-offs, and there’s an internal stack to the wing.

The front facade has an almost symmetrical three-window arrangement. Rusticated quoins and a moulded gutter box are present, along with three flat-roofed dormers. Two-storied canted bays flank the central porch. The windows are 8-pane, 12-pane, and hornless sashes to both floors. The porch has a moulded cornice, Ionic square-section columns, and low panelled plinth side walls, and includes a half-glazed panelled door. Two early 18th-century windows with mullions and transoms remain on the first floor of the left-hand side elevation; two 19th-century casement windows are situated below, all within segmental arches. The ground floor also has a 16-pane hornless sash window under a similar arch. A 19th-century doorway features Gothick arched panelling, set under a simple canopy on shaped brackets.

The interior includes early 19th-century joinery, an open well staircase with stick balusters and a ramped handrail, and A-profile roof trusses. The listing also encompasses a brick front garden wall on a stone plinth, which previously had a central entrance that is now blocked.