8, Bridge Street

The house at 8 Bridge Street dates to the 16th century, with a 20th-century addition to the rear. It is timber-framed, with rendered and red brick facades and a peg-tiled roof. The building has a rectangular plan, typical of a narrow street frontage, with a rear extension. It stands two storeys high, with a partial attic and a cellar. The west-facing front elevation sits on a high brick plinth, with steps leading to the front door. The left-hand unit exhibits exposed timber framing with straight external tension bracing and a jettied first floor, featuring substantial framing joists and brackets. A bay window with three casement windows, incorporating 6x3 panes and a 1x3 fixed light on the returns, occupies the ground floor beneath the jetty. A C19 four-panel flush door is located to the south, alongside a C20 boarded cellar door set within a red brick plinth. A three-light casement window with rectangular leaded panes is positioned on the first floor. To the south, a brick-faced section contains sliding sash windows: a ground floor window has 4x4 panes, while the first floor window has 4x3 panes. The north end displays a jettied timber-framed block, with a rear addition in brick and flint on a cobble plinth. The timber framing replicates that on the front, with tension braces to the first floor. A gable, weatherboarded and containing a central 2x3 casement window, is visible. Projection of the wall plates once supported bargeboards, which are now missing. A small casement window is located on the first floor to the rear. The rear addition is two storeys high and incorporates a 19th-century stack at the junction with the original front range, beneath a low-pitched slate roof. A ground floor double casement window and a smaller first-floor window are present. The rear east elevation features a broad gable, with a C20 door on the ground floor and a 2x3-paned window above. A C20 sliding sash window with 4x4 panes sits below, while two C20 oriel windows with 4x4 panes and return lights are positioned on the first floor. The interior of the jettied section showcases step-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. A medieval door head with sunk spandrels and carpenters' assembly marks, alongside mortices possibly for a dais head-board, is set into the south wall. A brick-faced bay to the south is framed independently. A tie-beam at the south end was raised to accommodate the eaves level of a 19th-century brick refronting.