31, BRIDGE STREET (See details for further address information)

31 Bridge Street is a building dating from 1909, originally serving as a bank and now functioning as building society offices and a shop. It was designed by architects Messrs. Bateman and Bateman. The structure features limestone ashlar and a first floor made of English bond brick with ashlar dressings. The roof is hipped and covered with plain tiles, and there are brick and ashlar stacks.

This building is designed in the late 17th-century 'English Renaissance' style and consists of two storeys and an attic, with a total of six narrow bays in a four-window range. The ground floor showcases banded rustication, with concave corners featuring alternating quoins on the first floor and elaborately carved and moulded corbels. The symmetrical front facing Newdegate Street has double-leaf eight-panelled doors in the first and sixth bays, adorned with console keystones and richly decorated stone projecting arched hoods on moulded brackets. It includes four plate-glass round-arched windows with moulded imposts, leaded fanlights, and console keystones, along with a string course band.

On the first floor, the first and sixth bays are blank, while there are four closely-set leaded stone cross windows with moulded eared architraves, husk drops, and cornices. The stone cornice features egg and dart and modillion detailing. Segmental-pedimented dormers have leaded two-light wood mullioned windows. A large ridge stack is located between the second and third bays, featuring stone bands and a fielded panel with a moulded architrave and open segmental pediment.

The front facing Bridge Street is similarly detailed, with the ground floor displaying two arched windows to the left. No. 31 has a late 20th-century shop front but retains the original bolection-moulded stone stepped architrave with drops and an ornamented cornice. The first floor features two pairs of windows and a central ridge stack. A rainwater head on the building is dated.