Bridge Cottage

Bridge Cottage is a toll house, now serving as an estate cottage, built around 1830-1840. It is shown on the 1840 Black Hall estate map. The building features lined rough rendered stone rubble with a slate-hung rear elevation and a grouted scantle slate roof. The roof has deep eaves with exposed ends of rafters, a three-sided hipped roof at the front, and a roof span that runs at right angles at the rear with gabled ends on the sides. There is a rendered central axial stack topped with a moulded yellow clay chimney pot.

The overall layout consists of a two-room plan, which includes a two-storey, one-room section with a canted front and a slightly wider two-storey cross wing at the back, which has a basement at the lower ground level. The kitchen and service areas are located at the back, while the front room likely has a central doorway providing direct access. The road in front of the cottage is elevated due to the adjacent bridge over the River Avon.

In terms of exterior features, the front has two storeys, while the back has two storeys and a basement. The three-sided canted front includes 19th-century eight-pane casements, with the right-hand first floor replaced by a six-pane casement. The centre of the first floor has a blind recessed panel, with a doorway below that features a 19th-century plank door. A band at the first-floor level extends around the right and left returns, which have recessed panelled elevations that are gabled and slightly advanced towards the rear, where the ground level drops to the lower basement. The sides feature 19th-century casements and blind windows. The slate-hung rear elevation includes a central lower ground floor doorway with a half-glazed door, a 16-pane casement above, and a blind panel on the top floor. The interior has not been inspected.