5, Bridgetown

This is a merchants house dating from the late 16th or early 17th century. It is two and a half storeys high with one window. The roof is covered in Welsh slate and has an old masonry stack, which has been heightened with red brick. The side walls are constructed of coursed Devonian limestone rubble and feature moulded corbels on the second-floor jetty. The front of the house is timber framed and gabled, having been altered and refenestrated in the later 19th century. The attic is slate hung, and the ground and first floors are plastered. The second floor is jettied, supported by a moulded bressumer. Bracketed oriel windows are present on the first floor and in the attic, each with seven and six lights respectively, featuring ovolo moulded mullions and sills with leaded lattice casements. A slightly projecting six-light window with a transom and mullions, and a leaded lattice casement, is at ground floor level. Flanking doorways have framed surrounds; a modern “Tudor-Bethan” door is located at the east end, and a half-glazed 19th-century door is at the west end.