Number 9 Row Number 9 Street

Number 9 Bridge Street and 9 Bridge Street Row East comprises a medieval undercroft below a Row shop and a three-storey former townhouse of probable late 17th-century origin. The upper storeys were re-fronted around 1840 and have a rendered façade. Medieval masonry survives at the rear of the undercroft and includes a chamber 4.33 metres in length of stone construction. The Row and undercroft shops were in separate occupancy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a grocers in the undercroft in 1878, becoming a fishmongers by 1902, and the Row shop being a hairdressers and then a drapers. In 2023, the undercroft shop was a travel agents with a retail shop to the Row. The use of the upper storeys was not known. The building is constructed of sandstone and rendered brick, with a grey slate roof with its ridge parallel with the street.

The building is of five storeys including an undercroft and Row level. At street level there is a modern shopfront to the undercroft and sandstone end piers which are continuous through the undercroft and Row storeys. The Row has cast-iron railings with ornate spear-heads and a cast-iron central column to the front opening. There is a boarded sloped stallboard measuring 2.03 metres from front to back, a flagged Row walkway and an altered shopfront. A shop fascia sign hides the Row-front bressumer.

The upper storeys are of rendered brick. Each storey has two recessed sash windows. Those to the third storey are of two-over-two panes and have a painted stone sillband. There are eight-over-eight pane sashes to the fourth storey with painted stone sills. The fifth storey windows have painted stone sills, eight-pane lower leaves and four-pane upper leaves. None of the lintels are expressed. The eaves have a moulded cornice and coped gables.

In the undercroft most surfaces are lined, but some medieval stonework is visible in the rear wall. At Row level the surfaces are covered and the stair has been replaced. The third storey has two chamfered cross-beams with lambs tongue stops, probably of the late 17th century, which have been painted, and one covered beam. There is a damaged reeded plaster cornice and the rear room has similar stop-chamfered beams. The ceiling panels have reeded margins and moulded fleur-de-lys at the corners. The stone hearth-base of the corner fireplace in the room above is visible.

There is a damaged open-well closed-string oak stair to the fourth and fifth storeys with square newels, some of which have been altered, two substantial barley-sugar balusters per step, broad boards on the quarter landings and a moulded rail which has been altered in parts. The fourth storey front room has a Classical corner fireplace with pilasters and a damaged overmantel panel. The middle and back rooms have corner fireplaces. The fifth storey has a painted oak door of seven roughly-fielded panels, probably of the late 17th century, to the front room which has a stone fireplace and mantel. The interior suggests that the medieval undercroft and town house was substantially rebuilt around 1700 and then re-fronted around 1840.