17, Bridge Street

No. 17 Bridge Street is a department store, now used as a shop and offices, dating from 1911. The building is constructed of orange-red brick in English garden wall bond, featuring window arches made of orange gauged brick with buff terracotta dressings. It has pilasters, a cornice, and parapet coping made of faience, and a slate roof with three parallel gabled ranges at the rear.

The exterior faces Bridge Street and consists of three storeys and three bays, with a subsidiary bay set back at the right end. The ground floor is rusticated and features rusticated pilaster strips, with the outer ones adorned with carved laurel garlands in frieze blocks. The upper floors are highlighted by giant Ionic pilasters that support a plain entablature with a cornice enriched with bead mouldings. The parapet obscures the roof. There are three shopfronts on the ground floor, two of which have curved corners and glazed double doors, while the left one is a later replacement. Each bay on the first floor has one two-light plate glass window with a segmental transom. On the second floor, the centre bay features a clock in a moulded stone roundel situated between rusticated dwarf pilasters with moulded imposts, flanked by narrow cross windows, while the outer bays each contain three cross windows. A raised second floor band serves as a sill band for the outer bay windows, and there is a date stone beneath the clock.

The right return to the river shows three storeys with four unequal bays. The ground floor shopfronts are positioned between rusticated pilaster strips with egg-and-dart impost mouldings. The first floor windows are recessed beneath segmental arches made of radiating voussoirs on rusticated piers, with balconies balustraded with plain railings and inset patterned panels. The windows are of three lights and include doors with inset oval lights. The interior has not been inspected.