Description

SE13NW BINGLEY BRADFORD ROAD
SE112379 (south side)

6/51 Nos 1 and 2
(Cottingley Bridge House)

GV II

House, now in 2 occupations. Early-mid C18. Hammer-dressed stone,
dressed quoins, stone slate roof. 2 storeys and cellars. 7-bay
symmetrical facade. Central 3 bays set back form outer 2 bays which
have quoined angles. Doorway has monolithic jambs and chamfered
surround. Above square window with 9-pane fixed light. To either
side at mezzanine level 12-pane sash window with plain stone surrounds.
That to left lights stairs. Outer bays have sashes with architraves
and projecting sills to each floor. Gutter brackets. Coped gables
with kneelers and stacks, one other stack to ridge at junction of
5th and 6th bays. Rear: L-shaped. Projecting wing to left has doorway
with tie-stone jambs to right of 2-light sash window with 8-pane sashes.
1st floor has 2 sash windows, originally 2-light and 3-light windows.
Set back 3-bay facade has central doorway with monolithic jambs and
2-light flat-faced sashed mullioned windows to each floor. Those to
ground floor have recessed mullions.

Right-hand return has 2 bays of sash windows and large external
stack to rear kitchen with offsets.

Interior: No 1 has sitting-room with plastered cornice with anthemion
frieze, windows with architrave and shutters, doorways with 6-panel
Neo-classical mahogany doors. 1st floor has 2 Cl8 fireplaces with
fluted entablature and casement-moulded cornice retaining decorative
cast-iron grates; one fireplace has false-ogee lintel with roll-moulded
surround. No 2 has rooms with good moulded cornices to ceilings and
beams. Arched doorway with console keystone and impost leads to dog-leg
staircase with gun-barrel turned balusters and deepmoulded handrail with
similar moulded newels. Stair hall has deep moulded cornice. 1st floor
has fireplace with false-ogee lintel and another with monolithic jambs,
stop-chamfered surround, frieze decorated with urn and festoons, dentil
cornice.

Listing NGR: SE1124137936

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26426321

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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