NHER 12741 (Building record) - Lodge Farm House, 21 Bridge Street

Late 16th/early 17th century house with rear projection containing cellar and stairs etc and traces of a removed porch tower. Stopped beams, fireplaces. Extended north and south around 1700? Other additions and alterations through 18th to 19th centuries. See report (S1) in file.

November 1951. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description:
House. Second half of 16th century and 17th century. Walls flint, brick dressings. Roof red pantiles. T plan farmhouse, 2 storey attics. Canted wing to N and wing to E form earliest, late 16th century , parts of house. Two storey, 4 bay house added in 17th century. Sash windows, plate glass; arched window over door, tripartite sash, panelled door case, reveals, half canopy, 2 arched lights to 4 panelled door: all these details late 19th century. Random brick surrounds indicate position of former brick mullioned windows. S gable, kneelero, brick parapet coped. Two moulded brick stacks, to S, and on part wall with N wing. N wing: brick string course marks plinth. One bay, 2 storey, 2 tripartite windows. At N kneelers, brick coped parapet, and, on gable external chimey projecting, flint at ground floor, brick with moulded brick string course, tumbled angles, moulded stack 17th century. Two attic gable windows either side of flue. W wing (rear) of similar date, projecting chimney, flint ground floor, brick dressing, moulded brick string course, angles and parapet (later stack). Gables flint brick quoins, fireplace windows at first floor and at gable attics, latter partly filled in by chimney. Outshuts to single pile frontage: 2 storey, flint pantiled wing to S.
Information from (S2).

Listed building description, Grade II (S2) differs in interpretation, see report (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 25 February 1987.

1988.
Structure, underground, unearthed in back garden.
Seems to be a vaulted water receptacle; an 18th century plunge bath?
Filled with 19th century sanitary wares.

Now backfilled as soakaway. See report (S3) and photographs (S4) in file.
E. Rose (NAU), 19 February 1988.