Description

ALDHAM FORD STREET
1.
5214
The Bridge House
TL 92 NW 7/63
II GV
2.
C17 house embodying earlier timber framing. One double range forming an L-plan
by junction with a single range aligned roughly east-west of 2 storeys throughout.
The front range has red brick casing with pilastered returns dated: 'MAB 1847',
with range of 5 windows on first storey and horned 2 pane sashes on ground storey
with stucco heads - keystoned - and sills. Front door in wide wooden case with
2 flattened columns and flat leaded hood, in fielded returns. Roof ridged and
gabled, pegtiled with 3 course brick eaves cornice, 2 red brick chimney stacks
in rear slope. Inside on the first floor much pine panelling, ceiling cornices
and chair rails all circa 1700. The front range has a C16 timber east wall that
was raised 3 feet in the early C17.

Listing NGR: TL9195327060

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26404579

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)