Building record 2853/0/158 - Bridge House, King's Cliffe

A former maltings of 1827 that was then used as a smithy and wheel wrights shop, located on the northern side of Bridge Street, to the east of Willow Brook. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with a hipped Collyweston slate roof and brick ridge chimney stacks. On the south western gable is an inscribed datestone: JH 1827. The building is U shaped in plan with the southern wing abutting the street. This street elevation has three gabled dormer windows above three segmental arched windows with a door to the right and two small attic and cellar windows to the far left.

{1} Bridge House, an industrial building, originally a malting now partly a dwelling. U-shaped plan, hipped roof. On south-west gable a panel inscribed 'IH 1827' for John Howes.

{2} The site of a former maltings of 1827 that was then used as a smithy and wheel wrights shop. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with hipped Collyweston slate roof and brick ridge chimney stacks. On the south western gable is an inscribed datestone: JH 1827. The building is U shaped in plan with the southern wing abutting the street. This street elevation has three gable dormer windows above three segmental arched windows with a door to the right and two small attic and cellar windows to the far left.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.97/Site 10 (Series). SNN77384.

<2> Historic England, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments- Building File, BRIDGE HOUSE, KINGS CLIFFE; Ref: BF084128 (Oral Report). SNN71057.

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