2-7, Bridge Street

A range of shops with living accommodation above, dating circa 1775, with later 19th-century and 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs. The plan is double depth, with some rear extensions. The exterior presents three storeys, attics, and cellars, featuring three-window fronts stepped down the hill in pairs. The ground floor has a variety of shopfronts; No.2 dates to 1922, designed by A.J. Taylor; No.3 is circa 1923; No.4 is circa 1923, by W.A. Williams; No.5 is late 19th or early 20th century; No.6 is a mid-20th century shopfront, and No.7 retains a good early 19th-century shopfront of three bays, with a central door and an entrance to the house above on the right. This shopfront features fluted Corinthian half columns, stallrisers, a six-panelled door, plate glass windows, and a single pane rectangular light with margin glazing above the door. A six-panelled door is located to the right of the shopfront, with a rectangular light over. All windows have architraves, with those on the first floor having corniced heads. The second floor of No.3 and the first floor of Nos. 4 and 5 feature six/six sashes; all other windows are late 19th-century plain plate glass sashes, except for No.2, which has had its first-floor windows cut off and has two/two sashes on the second floor. A cornice, parapet, and mansard roof are present, with each house featuring paired flat-topped dormers. No.3 has six/six sashes in its dormers, and the building has stone stacks topped with pots. The interiors remain uninspected. The buildings Nos. 5, 6, and 7 appear in Thomas Malton's View of Pulteney Bridge from Spring Gardens, 1788. Bridge Street was created following council approval of the construction of Pulteney Bridge in 1769. The buildings were originally listed with Nos. 1-6, and then separated for individual evaluation.