Laundry Cottage (Bid Bridge)

Laundry Cottage

Laundry Cottage is located near Bid Bridge.  Today, Laundry Bungalow is next door to it, but originally it was detached house on its own plot.  The building is described in the 1870 Sales Particulars for Hall Place as a well-built ornamental cottage dwelling, with porch and barge boards, built of Red Brick and Tile.  It contains 6 rooms, with garden.  In 1870 it was let to Mr John Hollands, a yearly tenant, at a rent of £10 per annum.  According to the census, John Holland was a baker.

In its listing, it is described as follows: dated 1855 on a plaque on the gable end, and was possibly designed by George Devey.  Red brick in Flemish bond with pale headers.  Diaper patterns on gables.  Fishscale tiled roof with fleur-de-lys ridge tiles and two tall brick chimneys with arises and multi-stepped cornices.  Carved and pierced bargeboards.  Standstone alternating quions.  Square plan, two storeys, two windows each face.  Three light casements with transoms on ground floor, in chamfered reveals with gauged brick arches and sloped stone cills.  Gabled porch with entrance under four centred arch, side benches, four panel door.

Joyce Field (May 2021)