2 and 4 Bridge Street

House or houses, later in commercial use, constructed in the early C19.

MATERIALS: the street elevation is stuccoed on the first and second floors and has a timber shop front on the ground floor. The roof covering is slate to the eastern roof slope and lead to the western slope. Windows are timber.

PLAN: the building occupies a quadrant-shaped plot, with a curved street frontage to the north-east.

EXTERIOR: the building is of three storeys under a pitched roof shared with the adjoining property at 1 Castle Street. The ground floor shopfront comprises a recessed, central doorway flanked by fixed windows with raised and fielded stallrisers, and a separate entrance to the upper floors on the northernmost end of the elevation. Above, the fascia board is carried on a series of paired dentils and has a heavy cornice with a stepped central section, supported at either end by pairs of modillion brackets.

The first and second floors each have a range of three windows, evenly spaced but set in from either end of the elevation. Those at the first floor are six-over-six timber sashes and those on the second floor are three-over-six sashes. Flanking each of the second-floor windows are moulded brackets rising to a corbelled, stucco cornice.