Description

STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET CHURCH ROAD
1.
5222
(north-east side)
Bridge Cottage
(formerly listed as
Elms House)
TL 5124 47/697 21.2.67

II

2.
Early C16 timber-framed and plastered house. The timber-framing is exposed
on the upper storey. Two storeys. On the front the ground storey has been
refaced in brick (painted). The upper storey projects as a small wing on
the south-west front and is supported on 2 posts with brackets and some
carved panelling, to form an open porch on the ground storey. The gable
of the porch wing projects slightly on a bressummer with pendants and the
gable has ogee shaped bracing. The corners of the upper part have curved
braces. The windows are casements mainly with latticed lights, some with
glazing bars. Roof tiled, hipped, with a gambrel roof at the north-west
and south-east ends. (RCHM 16).

Listing NGR: TL5149624833

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26563832

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living