Description

RICKINGHALL INFERIOR BURY ROAD (SOUTH SIDE)
TM 07 SW
3/114 Bridge House
15.11.54
GV II

House. Late C16, extended and altered early C19 and C20. Timber frame,
plastered with panelled pargetting, brick additions. Steeply pitched machine
tiled roof. 5 bay 3 cell lobby entrance plan, possibly larger originally. 2
storeys and attic. Continuous jettied front with lobby entrance to left of
centre. C20 2 and 3-light glazing bar casements, transomed on ground floor,
coving to jetty which is boarded, modillioned eaves cornice. Cross axial
stack to left of centre between hall and parlour, rebuilt cap. Left end part
opening 3-light leaded casements, transomed on ground floor. Right end glazing
bar and leaded casements. To rear a catslide roof over an early C19
colourwashed brick lean-to behind parlour with mixed lattice leaded and
glazing bar casements; behind hall on first floor two 4-light cavetto
mullioned windows, a 2-light lattice leaded casement, a 1 storey C19 lean-to
with an entrance, leaded casements, a C20 additon to rear right. Interior:
hall and service end stop chamfered axial binding beams, reset C17 panelling
in hall; parlour close studding, a 3-light cavetto mullioned window, altered
ceiling with double roll moulded crossed binding beams and mid-rail, some
runout roll moulded joists and some stop chamfered joists. First floor arched
braces from jowled posts of rebated section to tie beams, ceiled with stop
chamfered crossed binding beams and joists. Original attic with high quality
chamfered double butt purlin roof with cambered collars, large arched wind
braces.

Listing NGR: TM0376274973

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26389247

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings