Other Notable Buildings
Bridge Farmhouse, by the railway bridge, displays simple diapering on the wall that faces the road, but is otherwise unremarkable, having been much altered and now subdivided to form two dwellings. Foxwood, formerly the White House, has a Georgian front built on to a house with older origins. The present bridge over the river Bure is built over the remains of an older bridge that lifted up to allow wherries to pass underneath. The old bridge, built around the fifteenth century, is of two arches and built of brick. It incorporates two strange arched niche-like structures that have been variously interpreted as shelters for travellers caught in the rain and as lurking-places for excise-men. Percy Millican, in his history of Horstead and Stanninghall, links these with a similar arch not far from the bridge there, which is of similar date. Millican describes the bridge as standing high and dry, although today water flows under both of these arches.
Coordinates: 52°45′N 1°20′E / 52.75°N 1.333°E / 52.75; 1.333
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