Bridge Cottage, Grade II* listed thatched cottage in East Bergholt, England.
Bridge Cottage is a single-story dwelling built around 1700 and features traditional English architecture with a thatched roof and timber-framed walls painted white. The building sits close to the River Stour and once housed multiple families in its modest rooms.
The cottage was built in the early 1700s to house working people near the river. During the 1800s it was divided into two separate homes so that two families could live there at the same time.
This place shows how working families once organized their lives in small spaces and used every room carefully. The exhibits tell the stories of people who lived here and what daily life was like in this rural part of Suffolk.
The cottage is open to visitors through the National Trust and offers guided tours through its rooms. Keep in mind that this is a small, historic building, so the spaces are quite confined and the ceilings may feel low.
The Clark family lived here in 1890 with eleven children and a young lodger packed into this tiny home. Today visitors can see how families organized and stored their daily belongings in such tight quarters.
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