4, Bridge Street

No. 4 Bridge Street is a house built in 1838 by the influential Gibson family. It features gault brick and a slate roof, with an L-shaped plan and two storeys. The front (west) elevation is symmetrical with a two-window range, a central front door, and a chimney stack. The tapering plinth accommodates the road, which drops to the north. The ground floor has windows and a door with chamfered reveals and well-crafted voussoirs. The windows are paired sashes, with four panes by four panes on the north side and four panes by two panes on the south side. The doorway has a four-centred arched head, and the door is similar, framed with a full-length, moulded, boarded central panel. Above the door is a recessed date stone reading "1838 G." The first-floor windows are designed as dormers, dropped through the eaves, featuring moulded barge-boards and moulded upper architraves, with triangular tympana that have central pebble-rendered triangular panels. The windows are horned sashes with delicate glazing bars and splayed sills. The chimney is made of gault brick with recessed panels and four buff-coloured square stacks. The rear of the house has an outshut of similar brickwork.