Listed Building: BRIDGES COTTAGES (406589)

BARKING DARMSDEN TM 05 SE 2/34 Nos. 1 & 2 Bridges - Cottages - II Two houses, built as one in C16, with major alterations of C17 and later. 3- cell cross-passage entrance plan. 1 storey with attics. Timber-framed and plastered; the front elevation with cable-pattern pargetting, and one end wall with exposed framing and plaster infill panels. Roman pantiled roof with gabletted hip at right hand end and axial chimney of red brick; a C19 gabled casement dormer. Various C19 and C20 casements. 4-panelled C19 entrance door and glazed C20 porch. To the front of the left-hand parlour end (now part of Cottage No.1) is a 2-storey 2-cell extension of C17 or C18. Plaintiled roof. Various small-pane casements some with leaded lights. A blocked 1-storey plastered and plaintiled entrance porch gave access to a lobby entrance at a large axial chimney. The main framing members and many rafters of the lower range are of C16, but the 1st floor joists are laid flat and chamfered in the C17 manner, and much of the studwork and the clasped-purlin roof are of C17/C18. Large chimney of C16/C17 with open lintelled fireplace backing against cross-passage. Listing NGR: TM0924352723