60-62, BRIDGEGATE

This is a late 18th-century house, later partly used as a café, located on Bridgegate in Howden. It was originally listed as numbers 60 and 62, formerly of St. Helen’s Square. The building is constructed of brick in an irregular bond, with darker brick used for the quoins at the corners and for the window jambs. It has a replacement pantile roof.

The house is three storeys high and has three bays. The central doorway, now incorporated into a later 19th-century shop front to the left, originally comprised six fielded panels and an overlight. The shop front features a three-light plate-glass window and a half-glazed door with a margin-glazed overlight, articulated by pilasters with brackets supporting a frieze and cornice. To the right of the shop front is a 16-pane sash window. The first floor has a sash window with glazing bars, flanked by 16-pane sashes. The second floor has an unequally hung 9-pane sash window flanked by unequally hung 12-pane sashes. All windows have flat brick arches and stone sills. A dentilled eaves course runs along the top of the building. The gables have brick kneelers, and there are end stacks.

During the 19th century, the building served as the King's Head Inn.