Bridge House, roadside wall and gate piers is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.

Bridge House, roadside wall and gate piers

WRENN ID
stony-minaret-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Country
England
Date first listed
28 August 1987
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

Bridge House is a detached house and former shop, at least mid-18th century in date but probably earlier, with documented shop use from at least 1815. The building has undergone mid- to late-19th century repairs and alterations, with further modifications and additions in the 20th and early 21st centuries. The roadside boundary wall and gate piers date from around the turn of the 20th century.

The house is constructed of rendered cob and stone rubble, probably Raddon stone, with some brick and concrete block; masonry is exposed on the rear and south-west elevations. The roof is gabled and thatched, though one part of the rear slope is covered in slate. Chimney stacks include a rebuilt left-end brick stack, a brick stack at the junction with the front porch, and a stone and brick stack to the rear. The porch roof is hipped and thatched. An early-21st-century rear extension is built of brick, part-clad in timber, beneath a zinc flat roof.

The building is L-shaped on plan, comprising a main range with a rear south-west wing at right angles. Several ancillary buildings are positioned along the north-east boundary of the plot.

The house faces south-eastwards onto Jubilee Green and is two storeys; the rear wing is one and a half storeys. The fenestration consists of timber sashes and casements of various dates. The asymmetrical four-bay front contains a full-height porch to the left of centre, which projects over the cobbled pavement. The porch is dated 1763 and inscribed with the initials PW1; it may be an addition to an earlier building. The porch has a room on the first floor and is carried on four posts, two of which are later additions. At ground-floor level within the porch is an early-20th-century shop front with narrow pilasters, a doorway (blocked internally), and a large window with transom lights; iron hooks flank the opening. At first-floor level the porch has a sash window on its front and each side elevation. To the left of the porch is a 19th-century panelled door with rectangular fanlight and two-over-two sash windows on each floor, replacing three-light casements documented in a photograph from 1875. To the right of the porch are two ground-floor sash windows and three on the first floor, two of which are paired. The left return (south-west) has sash windows on the ground and first floors. The south-west elevation of the rear wing contains two early-21st-century casements. The rear elevation includes a doorway at the left end, partly infilled and replaced by a window, and a casement window to the right of the stack narrowed to three lights. At first-floor level, an early-21st-century sash window serves the projecting section at the right-hand end. An early-20th-century flat-roofed extension stands at the junction between the two ranges.

On the north-east side of the house, a ramped boundary wall and pair of gate piers access Jericho Street. These are built of red brick and capped with simple brick mouldings; the gate is modern. The wall is inscribed with the names and initials of local boys and various dates from the 1910s. In front of the house, a cobbled pavement extends beneath the porch.

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