Foss Bridge House

A shop and warehouse dated 1878, built for WJ Whitehead & Co., linen drapers. The front is of red brick with a Flemish bond pattern, while the rear uses an English garden-wall bond. The shopfront, cornice, and decorative dressings are of ashlar, and the roof is slate with brick stacks. A wrought and cast-iron gate is present.

The front elevation has three storeys and seven bays. The ground floor features a goods entrance with an iron gate within a shouldered opening on the left. Two-light plate glass windows flank a recessed, glazed and panelled double door, all beneath a dentilled cornice with cast-iron cresting supported by carved console brackets. The first and second floors are articulated by pilasters, with an impost band on the first floor and consoles supporting a moulded architrave and eaves cornice on the second. A balustraded parapet sits above, with a centrally placed panel carved with the building’s name and date. The first floor includes a central Venetian window with a pediment, flanked by squat Corinthian pilasters with keyed arches and carved friezes above the side windows. On the second floor, five centre windows are arcaded on foliate pilasters. The windows are 2-light casements with transoms on the first floor, and 1-pane sashes on the second floor, with moulded sills or sill bands.

The river front, to the right, is three storeys high with a cellar and attic, and has nine windows. Cellar windows have segmental arches and stone sills. The six windows at the left end of the ground and first floors are recessed between two-storey pilasters with moulded imposts, extending from the ground floor sill band and supporting an arcaded hoodmould on the first floor. The ground floor windows have heavy lintels, while the first floor windows are segmental-arched. The third-floor windows are 4-pane sashes with segmental arches and stone sills. Four-pane attic sash windows are raised as half-dormers into parapets with moulded coping. The building's rear and left returns are notable for their painted advertising signs.

Interior features of the late 19th century include surviving shop fittings on the ground floor, such as counters and drawer stacks.