Bridgelands

Bridgelands is a three-storey, classically-detailed house dating from 1791, with alterations made in the early 19th century and later additions. The house has three bays and is harled, with contrasting stone margins, long and short quoins, an eaves lintel course, a cornice, and keystoned round-headed stair window. Stone mullions are also present.

The primary, or south-west, elevation features a corniced doorpiece with a panelled timber door and a sunburst-astragalled fanlight in the centre at ground level. Tall, canted windows with half-piend slate roofs are in the flanking bays. The first floor has regular fenestration, and a small window is centrally positioned on the second floor, flanked by windows that break the eaves into shallow piended dormerheads. Four solar heating panels are located near the roofridge. A later set-back single-storey and attic wing with a modern conservatory is to the right, and low single-storey offices extend beyond.

The north-west elevation presents a broad gabled front with a bipartite window to the left at ground level. A French window with a small decorative wrought iron balcony is on the right at first floor, and a narrow light sits centred above. A later flat-roofed wing projects at the outer left, featuring a wide-centre tripartite window and a single window to the right return.

The north-east, or rear, elevation is a rambling composition incorporating a projecting gabled stair tower with a round-headed window, a decoratively-astragalled circular window to a single-storey wing on the outer right, and regularly-fenestrated, slightly lower two-storey bays on the left.

The south-east elevation shows the gable of the single-storey offices, with a narrow outshot and small steps. The windows throughout comprise 4-, 8-, and 15-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames, with plate glass. The roof is covered in grey slates, with modern rooflights and solar panels at the ridge. The chimneys have coped rendered stacks with thackstanes and cans, ashlar-coped skews are present.

The interior retains a good decorative scheme, including sympathetically reinstated fireplaces. There is also decorative plasterwork, timber shutters, brass sash lifts, and a curved cantilevered staircase with narrow decorative ironwork balusters and a timber handrail. Group Value is evident in the quality of the design and its contribution to the area.

The property is set within castellated quadrant walls with inset railings, ball-finialled square section ashlar gatepiers, and ironwork gates.