Bridge House
BRIDGE HOUSE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376907
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge House
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE HOUSE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376907
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE HOUSE, THE 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, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fornham All Saints
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 84007 67807
Details
TL 86 NW FORNHAM ALL SAINTS THE STREET
1/17 Bridge House - II -
House, formerly Fornham Hall Farmhouse. Early C16 and early C19. Irregular form, in 3 phases of building. At the north-west end, a one-and-a-half storey range, timber-framed and rendered with plaintiled roof, which formed the original farmhouse: 3-cell plan, with an internal chimney-stack and plain red brick shaft. Various windows: some original diamond mullions in one gable wall; one flat-headed dormer. Side purlin roof, over a doubled wallplate. Extending south-eastwards from this range is a timber-framed one-and-a-half storey block added during the C17, and fronted in early C19 white brick. The principal part of the house is a 2-storey, T-shaped block added in the early C19, which doubled the building in size. White brick and slates, with the rear walls in rubble flint; string course; plain overhanging eaves. Small- paned sash windows in cased frames with shallow reveals: on the south-east gable wall the 2 ground-storey windows are very deep, reaching almost to ground level; on the main south-west front, 2 tripartite sash windows, one inserted in mid C20. 6-panelled door with sunk panels under a plain portico supported on square reeded columns.
Listing NGR: TL8400767807
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 284081
- 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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