15 Bridge Street

A timber-framed building with C16 origins, and C19 and C20 alterations and additions.

MATERIALS: the building is timber framed with a rendered exterior and painted brick to the rear. The ground floor features a timber shop front. Windows to first and second floors are uPVC.

PLAN: the building has a broadly rectangular footprint and is located on a corner plot between Cartway, Underhill Street and Bridge Street. The building’s principal elevation faces south towards Underhill Street. Its western elevation runs along Cartway.

EXTERIOR: the building is composed of two bays over two storeys plus an attic. The principal south elevation features a mid-C19 shopfront on the ground floor with moulded cornicing and four square pilasters flanking a central doorway containing a half-glazed door and fan light and two-over-two windows on either side. To the first floor is a central canted oriel window, and above this are two gabled attic dormers.

The west elevation features a gable with cusped bargeboards and a modern window. The northern section of the building is stepped in slightly and abuts the north facing gable. The roof of this section features two attic dormers and a brick stack within the roof slope. The four first-floor windows are modern replacements. Along the ground floor of the west elevation is a shallow lean-to, tiled to the north and flat-roofed to the south. It is canted on the southwest corner, A passageway runs east to west through the building where it adjoins 45 Cartway. The interior of the passageway features chamfered beams and vertical studwork infilled with painted brick. The rear, east side of the building is also faced in painted brick and features a pitched roof extension and external staircase.

INTERIOR: the ground floor features chamfered ceiling beams and timber supporting posts, with a modern inserted staircase and bar. To the south-west corner is a diagonal dragon beam approximately 4m long. Through the modern bar is a jowel post with a west-facing bracket supporting the end of a projecting joist. There is a decorative cast metal supporting post in the north section of the ground floor.

On the first floor, there are jowel posts visible to the interior side of the west wall. Beams to this floor are chamfered and stopped. Walls feature close studding, box framing, and some diagonal bracing to the south wall.