Bradford House

A Memory of Bradford-on-Tone.

My daughters and I lived happily at Bradford House for seven years in the late 1990's ...

The house was originally two 17th century cottages at right angles to each other. The Victorians then re-modelled one of the cottages, adding bay windows and renaming it Bradford House - presumably to reflect its new and improved status.

In the 1930's the Berry family bought the property and gutted the remaining original cottage, building a Dutch barn at the rear. The materials for this addition came from a garden nursery which had closed down in the village, Mr Berry and sons carrying the reclaimed glass and wood back to their home to build the barn, adding large wooden and glass doors to the front of the old cottage, reminiscent of fire station doors.

The family originally set up a furniture removal business in the old cottage and Dutch barn, later on founding Berry's Coaches.

Sheelagh Leigh-Ewers

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