Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bridge House
Whitchurch, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 May 1975
- Locality
- Whitchurch
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Whitchurch
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.51115, -3.21716
- Cadw reference
- 13754
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Immediately opposite to Tabernacle Chapel and about 300m south-east of the Church of St. Mary.
History
A house dating from c1800 which has not been altered externally. The iron caps on the gatepiers (qv) may suggest that this house was the Manse for the Tabernacle Chapel opposite, which has the same feature, until the adjoining Manse was built.
Exterior
The house is roughcast rendered, probably over rubble stone, with a Welsh slate roof with red brick stacks. Two storeys. three bays, central entrance double depth plan, with rear service outshut. Central doorway with trellised porch with tented roof; rectangular fanlight with tracery; three panelled door. Sash windows with glazing bars, 6 over 6 panes, and stone cills. Plain gabled roof with end stacks. Gable elevation is blind. Rear elevation has a 3 over 6 pane sash on the upper floor and a small two storey outshut on left. To the right of the house is a small gabled building, once the stable but later altered to a shop. It retains the doorway with ventilator over and the hayloft door above.
Interior
Interior not seen at resurvey (November 2001).
Reason for designation
Included as a small unaltered house of c1800 having group value with the Tabernacle Chapel opposite.
Nearby in the register
- Front Wall, Gatepiers and Gate of No 88 (Bridge House)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Tabernacle ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St. MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Six GablesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.