Bridge Cottage Bridge House

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CULMSTOCK MILLMOOR, Culmstock ST 11 SW 10/57 Bridge House and Bridge Cottage - GV II

2 houses, formerly one house. C16 origins with late C17 - early C18 alterations, thoroughly refurbished and enlarged in the mid C19. Plastered stone rubble and plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped witn C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof, slate to mid C19 extension. Plan and development: 2 adjoining houses in a building with an irregular plan facing the river to the south. Bridge Cottage occupies the right (east) end of the main block, nearest the road. It has a 2-room plan. The right end room has a gable- end stack and the left room has an axial stack backing onto the right room. Rear service outshots and rear entrance. Bridge House, to left (west), occupies the remaining 2 rooms of the main block and they are heated by an axial stack between serving back-to-back fireplaces. The left end room breaks forward from the main front and connects to the mid C19 extension. This is built parallel to the main block. It contains a corridor through the right end and the parlour room has a gable-end stack, another on the right gable serves the first floor only. There is a 1-room plan heated service room to rear of the main block and secondary outshots there. The mid C19 refurbishment and subdivision of the property have disguised all evidence of the former layout of the house although there is evidence that the house began as some kind of open hall house heated by an open hearth fire. Service room to rear of the main block and secondary outshots there. Both houses are 2 storeys. Exterior: the C19 extension has a 2-window front of large 16-pane sashes under a low. segmental arches. The front doorway contains a part-glazed 6-panel door behind a C20 gabled porch. The extension roof is gable-ended. The rest of the main block has a regular 3-window front of C19 French windows with margin panes to the ground floor and first floor C19 and C20 replacement casements containing rectangular panes of leaded glass and thatch eyebrows over. The roof is hipped to left end and gable- ended to right. Interior: is largely the result of the mid C19 refurbishment. Only Bridge House was available for inspection at the time of this survey. No carpentry detail is exposed on the ground floor. The roof was not inspected but the bases of straight principals show, their scantling large enough to suggest that they are late C17 or C18 A-frame trusses. There is, however, in the party wall between the house and cottage a side-pegged jointed cruck at a lower level than the present roof. It is exposed and the builders reported that it was encrusted with soot proving that the original open hall was heated by an open hearth fire. f According to the owner of Bridge House a structural survey made of the whole building circa 1965 reported "Jacobean panelling" in Bridge Cottage but it is not known whether this is still there since the cottage was renovated after a fire circa 1970. Bridge House and Bridge Cottage form part of an attractive group of listed buildings in the vicinity of Culmstock Bridge (q.v).

Listing NGR: ST1009613810

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