The Old Bridge House
THE OLD BRIDGE HOUSE, SWAN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171223
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Bridge House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD BRIDGE HOUSE, SWAN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171223
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Bridge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD BRIDGE HOUSE, SWAN 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:
- THE OLD BRIDGE HOUSE, SWAN 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 86574 19125
Details
KELVEDON SWAN STREET TL 8619-8719 (south side)
8/269 The Old Bridge House 21.12.67 (formerly listed as Old Bridge)
GV II
Wrongly shown on OS map as part of no. 3. House. C17, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 2 bays facing NE, with a stack at the rear of each bay. 2-bay wing to rear of right bay, and C20 single-storey extension beyond. C17 stair tower to rear of left bay. 2 storeys and attics. C18 2-storey splayed bay with sashes of 12-16-12 lights on ground floor, 12-12-12 lights on first floor, and C20 casements on each floor. Attic floor, 2 casements in the style of C18 round-headed sashes; C20 feature gables. Lead rainwater head with embossed foliage. C20 door with gabled canopy on brackets in right return. Chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of vertical section in right bay, mainly of horizontal section in left bay. Right ground-floor hearth much altered, the original mantel beam raised over a C20 brick arch. Left ground-floor hearth wholly rebricked, retaining the original chamfered mantel beam with lamb's tongue stops. C18 2-panel pine door behind left bay, c17/L8 plain battened door behind right bay. On the first floor the right front room has a dado of C18 pine panelling; the Left front room has an early C19 entrance lobby with semi-elliptical arch and fluted pilasters. The stair tower has a late C17 open well stair from ground to attic, with moulded closed strings, wide moulded handrails and turned balusters, a feature of high quality, meriting special care. In upper room of rear wing, early C19 cast iron ducknest grate. The roof of the main range is of clasped purlin construction, with some re-used smoke-blackened rafters from a medieval roof. A photograph of this building c.1865, then The Swan Inn, is reproduced in B.L. Kentish, Kelvedon and its Antiquities, 1974, plate 7, showing that at that date it had a plastered parapet at front and side, a hipped roof, and an external stack on the right return.
Listing NGR: TL8657419125
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116567
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kentish, BL, Kelvedon and its Antiquities, (1974)
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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