Wye Bridge House Wye Villa

This is a house, now used as a shop and flats, dating back to the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed and has brick and stucco exterior finishes. It has a hipped and gabled slate roof with brick stacks at the front and on a wing. The main part of the house is three storeys and an attic (appearing as two storeys from Bridge Street), with a five-window front. The upper floors have 6/6 sash windows, and there are two dormers in the roof. A half-glazed door is set in a moulded case on the left side, with two recessed 6/6 casements to the right. The right-hand, gabled section of the house features a 6/6 sash window, a storeyband, and a larger tripartite sash window above it, with a chamfered stone surround and a corbelled sill. A cast-iron balcony is present on the first floor of the left bay. A passage to the rear has a 19th-century seven-panel door with an overlight. The front of Bridge Street has three casements with chamfered, scrolled and beaded stone surrounds and mullions; three 1/1 sashes within moulded stucco architraves; moulded wooden eaves; a moulded wooden storeyband; a 20th-century door and overlight in the right corner. The interior features a winder staircase with octagonal newels, turned balusters, and splat balusters to the second floor. The second floor has exposed timber-frame with chamfered ceiling beams and a 19th-century cast-iron fireplace. The first floor reveals an exposed 17th-century timber frame, including stop-chamfered ceiling beams with run-out stops, box framing, close studding, plank doors, two-leaf glazed doors, and a chamfered stone fireplace with an oak lintel. The ground floor contains 17th-century panelling, a ceiling frame with ogee stop chamfers and box framing, a mid-19th-century cast-iron fireplace, and a coved ceiling. The cellar/basement has exposed masonry and timbers, a mid-19th-century cast-iron fireplace, chamfered ceiling beams, and a tiled floor.