Building record 2853/0/118 - No.13 Bridge Street

An early 17th century house that was formerly a part of Bridge Street Garage located on the northern side of Bridge Street. The building is constructed of squared coursed limestone with double pitch Collyweston slate roofs and an ashlar central ridge chimney stack. The street facade has a symmetrical three window range with a central door flanked by five light canted bay windows with mullioned windows. Beginning at the top of the bay windows are jettied gablets that rise through the eaves. A 19th century extension has been erected to the rear.

{1} House. Early C17. Squared coursed limestone with Collyweston slate roof. Originally 2-unit lobby-entry plan. 2 storeys with attic. 3-window range. Flanking 5-light canted bay windows, with chamfered mullions, at ground floor. Jettied gablets above, supported on moulded brackets, have 3-light stone mullion windows to first floor. Similar, 2-light, window to first floor centre. Central, C20, door under wood lintel, is probably repositioned. Left gable has a 2-light stone mullion attic window with chamfered mullions. C20 bay window at ground floor. Right gable has 2 casement windows under wood lintels. Central ashlar stack with 4 flues. C19 extension to rear. Interior not inspected but noted as having remains of 2 open fireplaces. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p97)

{4} House. Early 17th century. Originally 2-unit lobby-entry plan. 2 stories with attic. 3-window range. 19th century extension to rear.

{5} Large inglenook fireplace with timber bressumer with a shallow Tudor arch. Most of the windows have flat-splay chamfered mullions likely to date between the late 16th and mid 18th centuries, although the east upper storey frontage window has ovolo-moulded mullions more common in the 17th century. Simialrly most of the chamfered beams internally have step and runout stops, though the beam in the upper west room has only runout stops- both types are braodly contemporary.
Blocked doors at both ground and upper floor level in the eastern elevation of the front range indicate that there was previously connected building to the east.

{6} Undated photo;

{8} Photo dated 12th May 1963;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 12/92 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G12 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> 1975-85, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, (unchecked) (Series). SNN100542.

<4> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, p.49 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN40683.

<5> Taylor, G., 2012, Historic building recording at 13 Bridge Street, King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire, 2012 (Report). SNN110678.

<6> Photographs of buildings in King's Cliffe (Photographs). SNN112705.

<7> Historic England, Undated, 13 BRIDGE STREET, KINGS CLIFFE, BF084126 (Archive). SNN114448.

<8> Miss June Swann, 1960s- 70s, Miss June Swann Photographic Archive (Photographs). SNN116665.

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Feb 5 2025 10:41AM