37 And 38, Bridge Road

37 and 38 Bridge Road is a house that has been converted into an office. It likely dates from the early 17th century, with alterations and additions made in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The building features a timber frame with brick infill, which is mostly painted, along with brick and Bargate stone, and has a plain tile roof. It is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with additional outshuts at the rear.

The building has a rubble plinth, and the timber frame includes posts, studs, rails, and a wall plate that form panels filled with later brick. The ground floor has been partially replaced with 20th-century brickwork in the centre. There are two 20th-century doors and three large leaded windows on the ground floor, while the first floor has four small leaded casements under the eaves. A projecting stack is located at the rear right.

On the left and right returns, there is timber framing, with the right return featuring another door and windows, as well as the end of a tie rod in the form of a double cross. The rear includes an outshut on the right with a cat-slide roof, made of stone with brick quoins, and has a gabled window that breaks the eaves. To the left of this, there is a broad lateral stack made of similar materials, with offsets and two square flues. Further left, there is a gabled roof dormer on the main range, which is obscured by a 20th-century outshut and gabled projection that are not of special interest.

Inside, the building features chamfered spine beams and broad chamfered joists. There are arched braces in the rear wall on the first floor, connecting wall posts to tie-beams that show burn marks from rush lights. The roof has queen-post trusses with clasped purlins and curved wind braces. The first floor contains old windows with original frames, iron casements with catches, saddle bars, diamond leading, and some old glass. In the right-hand bay, there are two 3-light windows in the rear wall with flat wooden mullions, possibly modified later to provide light for weaving. The cross-walls on the first floor have iron pins from former doors, and a double cross-wall at the left end may be the outer wall from a previously adjoining property. The ground-floor inglenook fireplace at the rear features a chamfered timber lintel.