Number 44 Row Number 44 Street

Number 44 on Bridge Street is a town house with an undercroft, likely rebuilt in the late 19th century as part of an extension to a department store that includes Nos. 44, 46, 48, and 50. The building is constructed from brick, sandstone, and cast iron, topped with a grey slate roof that has a ridge at a right angle to the front.

The exterior features five storeys, including the undercroft and Row levels. Behind a modern shopfront, there are cast-iron columns. Sandstone end-piers are partly hidden at street level and chamfered at Row level. The Row front has a wrought-iron railing with spear-headed principal balusters and serpentine common balusters, along with scroll-ornamented double rails similar to those at No. 46. There are two cast-iron Doric columns, and the Row walk is made of granolithic material. The painted rear wall to the Row has modern framed and boarded double doors, with a tripartite sash window of 4;16;4 panes to the north and a 16-pane sash window to the south, both equipped with panelled shutters on HL hinges. Inside, there are boxed beams at each end, a plastered ceiling, and a modillion cornice beneath a covered bressumer at the third storey.

The upper storeys are built of painted English garden wall bond brickwork, featuring four recessed 4-pane sashes with painted stone sills and gauged brick heads at the third storey, and four shorter similar sashes at the fourth storey. There is a three-course dentil band at attic level, with two sashes similar to those on the fourth storey, but under blocked brick basket-arches with hood-courses and shaped brick keys. The gable is coped on corbelled brick end-pilasters at the attic storey.

Inside, the only notable features are the cast-iron columns with simple basemoulds and foliar capitals. This building is included for its group value with the other listed buildings in the area.