Bridge House
BRIDGE HOUSE, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381397
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge House
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE HOUSE, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381397
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE HOUSE, EAST 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, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hunton
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ7293348784
Details
TQ 74 NW
1804/4/10007
07-AUG-00
HUNTON
EAST STREET
Bridge House
II
House with butcher's shop, later two cottages, now in one ownership. House probably mid C18 possibly replacing C16 building, butcher's shop early C19.
EXTERIOR: House is timberframed, rendered and colourwashed except for right side elevation which is tile-hung. Kentish peg tiled roof with off central brick chimneystack and catslide to rear. Two storeys: three windows. Windows are now C20 casements but beam above first floor window internally shows they were diamond mullioned casements originally. Front door to left but originally in centre forming lobby entrance. Plinth. Rear elevation has exposed timbers of thin scantling. Attached to left is one storey brick butcher's shop with rendered and colourwashed front and tiled roof sloping over front and supported on 4 wooden piers. This verandah is C20 but replacing an earlier one. Two original fixed light butcher's windows, the left window altered from a door.
INTERIOR: Hall has rough hewn chestnut beams. One four-panelled and one six-panelled door. Lounge has ceiling beams covered over but open fireplace (opened out in 1995) with large wooden bressumer with salt hole and brick fireback, the lower courses of C16 brickwork. Dining Room has exposed beams. Kitchen has exposed wall-frame of rough hewn timbers. Stairwell also has rough hewn timbers. First floor retains original beam above window with sockets for diamond mullions and shutter groove. Three plank doors. Roof has purlins and rafters.
HISTORY: Bridge House is believed to have once formed part of the Stonewall Farm estate. In the 1841 Census Thomas Duddy was listed as butcher. By the 1851 Census his wife Elizabeth had succeeded him. Thomas's father, also Thomas, was a butcher and buried in St Mary's churchyard Hunton in 1830.
Listing NGR: TQ7293348784
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481758
- 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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