70, 70A, 72 AND 74, LOWER BRIDGE STREET

70, 70A, 72 and 74 Lower Bridge Street are two undercrofts and townhouses, now functioning as two shops and offices. They were likely built in the late 18th century and feature Flemish bond brown brick with a grey slate roof that runs parallel to the front. The building has four storeys and three windows. The staircases leading to the recessed porch of No. 70A, located north of No. 70, and to No. 72, south of No. 74, indicate an 18th-century enclosure of the former Row, similar to properties on the north side of Watergate Street.

The first storey includes 12 repaired stone steps leading to a recessed porch, a shopfront with four untapered fluted pilasters, a stone plinth, a shop window with one lower pane, a transom, and two upper panes, along with a four-panel half-glazed door. The southern shop has a front that has been rebuilt in brick and features a flight of 13 stone steps in a round-arched recessed porch. The second and third storeys each have three recessed 12-pane sash windows, while the fourth storey has three 6-pane square sash windows. There is a sill band at the second storey, wedge lintels, painted stone sills on the third and fourth storeys, a cornice, a lead-clad parapet, and a central ridge chimney. The interiors have surfaces that are covered, and there are likely original dogleg stairs with steps covered and balusters boxed. The rear of the building has not been inspected.