Bridge Cottages

Three dwellings, dating from the early 18th century with later, mainly 19th-century additions. The construction is brick in Flemish bond, with plastered, roughcast, and whitewashed areas, and hipped and gabled-end slate roofs. The original core is a two-storey, early 18th-century house of six bays, though its front is largely obscured by later additions. A two-storey, early 19th-century addition of two bays, originally a shop, sits in the centre of the original front. To the left of this is a lower, roughly contemporary, two-storey curved range, set at an angle towards the Strand, with a shallow hipped roof. To the right is a later 19th-century single-storey polygonal extension. All stacks are brick, including the axial and right-hand end stack of the 18th-century house, which features rusticated quoins to the front and a moulded gutter box throughout. Only three 12-pane hornless sash windows are visible on the right-hand side; two to the first floor, and one to the ground floor. The left-hand end (facing the street) has a bowed window bay over two floors, with 20-pane hornless sash windows on each floor. A round-headed doorway is situated to the right of the bay, with a panelled soffit, and there is a full dormer window.

On the rear, one 16-pane hornless sash window remains as evidence of the original fenestration. The shop addition (the central block) has a two-window range with 12-pane hornless sash windows to the first floor, and a sash window to the left of the door with six panes at the top and nine at the bottom. A door and a 24-pane bowed sash shop window are set under a cornice with small fluted pilasters. The curved addition has a 16-pane hornless sash window in the first floor, with a four-pane horned sash window below. The polygonal extension features a cogged brick cornice, a horned sash window, and a doorway.