90 And 92, Lower Bridge Street

This is a town house, now used as a shop, cafe, and flats, likely dating back to the 15th century and significantly altered in the 17th, 18th, early 19th, and 20th centuries. The front facade is Flemish bond brick, built after 1816, with a grey slate roof. Originally, the roof featured a pair of front gables which were concealed by a tall parapet in the early 19th century.

The building is three storeys high and two bays wide. It was originally timber-framed and of two storeys, but was extended to three storeys and largely recased in brick with four cross-casements in the 17th century. A refronting in the early 19th century included a shop front, doors, and windows. The shop front has a six-panel door, with four panels glazed, and a single-pane window to the north, and two single-pane windows to the south. A four-panel house door, with two flush panels below, is located to the south of the shop front. The upper storeys feature recessed sash windows with painted stone sills and wedge lintels; the second storey has three windows of 12 panes each, and the third storey has three windows of 9 panes each. A brick parapet with moulded stone coping tops the facade.

The north side and rear of the building are clad in brick of late 17th-century character, which has been renewed at the corner. A heavy bay post is located near the centre of the side wall, and there is a valley chimney.

The interior of the first storey has been altered and includes a large central stack. The front room contains a chamfered cross-beam, possibly reused and altered, side-wall posts, a studded south wall, and the lower portion of a massive two-storey post that juts out, suggesting a former great hall of two bays. The second storey has a full-width front room with small oak panelling to the rear wall, matching doors, sub-panels to embrasures, and a four-panel ceiling with ornamental early 17th-century plasterwork on the two side-beams and the rear frieze and cornice; the central beam is renewed. A jowled post is located on the north wall. The central post in the rear room, now partially concealed by inserted partitions, has broad angle-braces to the north, south, and west, with a mortise for a removed brace to the east. The third storey has mainly late 17th-century timber framing, with some heavier timbers, likely reused.