Bridge Farmhouse

Bridge Farmhouse is a late 16th or early 17th century building, extended in the 17th century and altered in the late 19th century. It is constructed with brick-nogged timber framing, with a rendered brick wall to the ground floor and a tiled roof. The farmhouse is a seven-bay building, one room deep, standing two storeys high. A single-bay timber-framed extension is visible on the right-hand side, featuring a boarded door. On the left-hand wall, the ground floor has been replaced with rendered brickwork, accommodating two three-light casement windows with iron opening lights, and a boarded door positioned slightly to the left. A further single-bay timber-framed extension projects from the left, with a single-storey gabled brick extension beyond. The first floor shows a wallplate on the right extension that is slightly lower than the main block, with the main post repeating the original construction on the left. Two two-light casement windows are present, with a straight brace bressumer to the main post, one bay in from the right, and at the original end on the left. A two-light casement window is also found in the extension on the left. The roof is half-hipped at each end, with a brick chimney positioned on the ridge to the right of the front door. The rear wall was rebuilt in brick in the late 19th century. Internally, in the original central five-bay section, the ground floor ceiling on the left is quartered by main beams, with exposed chamfered ceiling joists. On the right, the ceiling is divided into six panels by heavy beams, accompanied by panelled shutters and a large chimney base. The main posts have jowelled first floors, and a cambered tie-beam is visible to the intermediate truss in the right half, along with a collar with angled struts below. There is no ridge piece.