The Bridge Hotel

The Bridge Hotel is a public house located on High Street West in Sunderland. It was built around 1820, with the ground floor being refronted in the late 19th century. The building features a faience ground floor, with brick above that has painted ashlar and stucco dressings. It has a felted slate roof with brick and rendered chimneys. The hotel stands four storeys tall and has a two-by-five window arrangement, including a round corner bay. The rear left return is two storeys high with four windows.

The main block has a canted corner entrance adorned with coloured patterned tiles and tall pilasters flanking a renewed door, which is topped by a blind semicircular overlight. Above this, there is a stone tympanum featuring a key to a blind roundel, supported by lion-mask brackets of a segmental pediment. The faience ground floor is rusticated above a high plinth and includes panels of patterned tiles both in the plinth and between the windows. There is a sill string for the fixed lights, which have glazing bars and voussoirs.

The upper floors feature a cornice on the second floor, with sash windows that have glazing bars and projecting stone sills, except on the second floor. The top window in the rounded corner has large Roman capitals spelling out "BRIDGE HOTEL" attached to the brickwork, and there is a top cornice. The low-pitched hipped roof has a raised section over the rear entrance bay and end chimneys.

The left return has a five-window arrangement in a similar style, but instead of a second-floor cornice, there is a band at the third floor. The left bay above the door is blind, set in elliptical-headed plain reveals under a scroll-bracketed hood. There is a two-storey left extension that continues with one faience bay on the right at ground level, and on the left, a pilastered shop front with a bracketed fascia. The first floor has four sashes in plain reveals with a lintel band and projecting stone sills, topped by a high coped parapet.