Bridge House
BRIDGE HOUSE, 178, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170952
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge House
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE HOUSE, 178, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170952
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE HOUSE, 178, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE HOUSE, 178, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kelvedon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 86466 19159
Details
KELVEDON HIGH STREET TL 8619-8719 (south-east side)
8/221 No. 178 (Bridge House) 21.12.67
GV II
House. C18, extended and altered in C19. Red brick in Flemish bond, partly painted, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range facing NW, with internal stack at left end, and original rear wing at right side with internal stack at the junction. C19 single-storey extension beyond, with internal stack at the junction. C19 rear wing at left end, with internal stack at left side, forming a half-H plan. 2 storeys, cellar and attics. 5-window range of sashes of 2 + 4 lights with flat arches of gauged brick, and crown glass. 3 C18 casements in hipped dormers. Central 5-panel door, the top 3 panels glazed, in doorcase with fluted pilasters, triglyph frieze-and dentilled pediment. 3 stone steps. Symmetrical elevation. Plain brick band between storeys. Left return painted, with one similar sash on ground floor. Abuts on no. 116 (Wyvern House) at right (item 8/220, q.v.). The rear elevation is painted, with a mid-C19 half-glazed door, including coloured glass, in an early C19 reeded surround, and above, one early C19 sash of 12 lights with crown glass. The left rear wing has C19 French windows, and a hipped roof. The left side of the right rear wing has one C19 horizontal sash of 9 + 9 lights. C18 3-flight staircase with open well and gallery; wreathed moulded handrail, 3 turned balusters to each tread and on gallery; carved scrolls on tread-ends; all of pine. The entrance hall has a C19 panelled dado, 3 semi-elliptical arches in lobby at left, a plaster egg-and-dart cornice; and 3 papier maché crestings over the front and 2 internal doors, with scrolls, strapwork and shells. All internal doors of 4 panels, except one C18 2-panel pine door to right rear wing. All folding shutters complete, on front ground-floor and first-floor windows, and French window of left rear wing. Boxed axial beams in front range. In right rear wing, one chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, and exposed plain joists of vertical section. In left front ground-floor room Victorian cast iron grate, and plain surround of grey and white marble. Another Victorian cast iron grate in front right room on first floor. Large wood-burning hearth in right rear wing, blocked. Plaster egg-and-dart cornice on first floor. Deeds from 1768 in the possession of the owners or Essex Record Office.
Listing NGR: TL8646619159
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116525
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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