THE BRIDGE HOUSE AT SOUTH WEST CORNER OF BRIDGE

THE BRIDGE HOUSE AT SOUTH WEST CORNER OF BRIDGE, STORTFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1290065
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: THE BRIDGE HOUSE AT SOUTH WEST CORNER OF BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: THE BRIDGE HOUSE AT SOUTH WEST CORNER OF BRIDGE, STORTFORD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1290065
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: THE BRIDGE HOUSE AT SOUTH WEST CORNER OF BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: THE BRIDGE HOUSE AT SOUTH WEST CORNER OF BRIDGE, STORTFORD ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE BRIDGE HOUSE AT SOUTH WEST CORNER OF BRIDGE, STORTFORD ROAD

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County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Little Hadham
National Grid Reference:: TL 44010 22705

Details

TL 4422 LITTLE HADHAM STORTFORD ROAD (south side) Little Hadham-on-Ash

8/9 The Bridge House at SW corner of bridge 22.2.67

GV II

House. C16/C17 origin. W part extended in C17. E part greatly extended and remodelled in early C18. SW rear wing and uniform refronting in later C19. Plasterwork in Pink Room said to be of 1920s. Oval plaster panel on front has '1500 1726'. 2 storeys and attics, 4 windows, timberframed and plastered house facing N. Steep old red tile parallel roofs, with double gable to E and rear catslide extension of main gable at W. 2 gabled dormers high in front roof. 3 large gables with windows, at rear. Front cased in painted brickwork below projecting upper floor with panelled pargetting, coved eaves and black painted borders. C18 and C19 2-light flush casement windows. Recessed C19 casements on Ground floor. Panelled entrance door off-centre with small tiled hood. Spacious entrance hall occupies E end of older front range. Remains of former floor of black and white marble in closet. 2 Tuscan columns screen fine early C18 well stair at rear rising as far as attics. Swept moulded handrail, cut and decorated string, 3 balusters to each tread in form of Tuscan columns with dies. Uncut string in attic flights. Elaborate NE drawing room with higher ceiling in C18 E extension. Heavy, modillioned cornice, moulded dado and skirting, carved wooden chimneypiece with eared surround, projecting corbels with paterae and fretted frieze. Pierced dentils to cornice. 6-panel door with moulded architrave. Sash windows with 6/6 panes, in projecting E bay. Early C18 2-panelled doors with HL hinges on both floors and edge moulded stile plank doors with strap hinges in the attics. Single-framed collar rafter roof in NW part. Clasped purlin roofs elsewhere. Separate steep winding stair in shallow 2 storeys lean-to SW extension. Prominent at the E entrance to the village.

Listing NGR: TL4401022705

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Legacy System number:: 395828
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.