43, Broad Street

No. 43 Broad Street is an attached house that has been converted into a café. It dates back to the 15th century, with a front added around 1760, and was refurbished internally in the mid-20th century. The building is timber-framed, with a brick front featuring limestone dressings, brick lateral stacks, and a pantile roof that has a mansard design at the front. It has a double-depth plan and stands three storeys tall with a two-window range.

The ground floor, which is beneath a timber cornice, includes a left-hand carriage entrance to a through-alley and a right-hand plate-glass shop front. Above the shop front, there are pilasters leading to a cornice and parapet. The windows have segmental-arched heads with five stepped voussoirs and feature 6/6-pane sashes that are horned on the first floor. The alleyway is paved with Pennant cobbles and has cast-iron kerbs, along with a doorway on the right.

The rear elevation, which dates from the 15th century, features first- and second-floor jetties. The upper jetty has exposed, round-ended joists, and there is an overhanging first-floor bay that extends to within one metre of the left side. To the left, there are exposed beams with a chamfered arch brace at the end, and the windows are three-light with plate-glass casements.

The interior was reworked in 1992 and 1993, revealing two 15th-century chamfered doorways with two-centred arches on the ground floor; the left-hand doorway has roll mouldings on the inside. Between these doorways, there are two small reset earlier medieval figures. The first-floor rear internal wall displays a box frame with diagonal bracing. This building is a rare survival of a late medieval town house in Bristol.