38, 42, 44, BRIDGEGATE

HOWDEN BRIDGEGATE SE 7428 (south-east side)

12/94 Nos 38, 42, 44 (previously listed as No 15.12.66 38, No 40/41, No 44/46)

GV II Terrace of 3 houses and shops. Mid C18 with C20 restoration. Brick, partly in Flemish bond, partly in English bond, replacement pantile roof. 3 storeys, 9 first-floor windows. Plinth. To left No 38 has C20 shop front with half glazed door beneath divided overlight to far left. To centre No 42 has C20 4-fielded-panel door beneath divided overlight with 2 sashes to right, the upper sections having glazing bars. To right No 44 has central 6 fielded-panel door with divided overlight, with C19 shop front to left and sash with glazing bars to right. Stone steps to all doors. First-floor band broken by shop front of No 38. First floor: sashes with glazing bars. Second floor: band and squat 6-pane sashes. All doors and windows have rubbed brick flat arches with whitewashed keystones, stone sills to all windows. Sprocketed eaves, gable coping, stone kneelers. Right end stack, 2 rebuilt ridge stacks. Interior: No 42 has fine open-string staircase with 2 column-on-vase balusters per tread, carved tread ends and ramped handrail. Drawing room: fielded panelling and dado with egg-and-dart border to panels. Dentilled cornice. Very ornate fireplace with pilasters with baskets of fruit and bouquets supporting a frieze with a central shell flanked by acanthus brackets and panels with foliate motifs, beneath an acanthus leaf cornice. Moulded plaster ceiling divided into rectangular sections with delicate diamond and radiating motifs and 2 good ceiling roses. No 38: fielded panelling and dado rail to first-floor reception room, some of which is C20. Original narrow round-arched cupboard within panelling. No 44: substantially modernised but retains some panelling and a closed-string staircase with column-on-vase balusters, boxed in to lower storey. A datestone said to bear the date 1743 is no longer legible but this is a likely date. Neave D, Howden Explored, 1979.

Listing NGR: SE7490028382