13, Bridgeland Street

This is a three-storey house, originally built in 1692 and with significant remodelling in the early or mid-19th century. The house is now a public house. It is constructed of solid rendered walls, likely incorporating brick and stone beneath, and has a slate roof. A chimney is located at the left-hand end of the front ridge. The original plan likely consisted of two rooms wide, with a central entrance passage, and included a rear wing extending to the left, containing a staircase at the front and a kitchen behind. A further wing was added to the right in the early or mid-19th century.

The front facade has a three-window arrangement, with a central doorway. The doorway is flanked by attached, plain-shafted Doric columns, panelled reveals, and an entablature. It has a six-panelled door with a brass knocker. The ground-floor windows are canted, flat-topped wooden bays with reeded half-columns between each window light, supporting entablatures with bracketed cornices. The central window has eight panes, while the side windows have six. The upper-floor windows have eared architraves; those on the second storey have moulded surrounds, and the third storey windows have bracketed sills. All windows have eight panes. The front of the building is flanked by raised quoins and a bracketed eaves cornice. Most of the rear windows have sash windows with bars, some featuring margin panes. The stair windows are similar, with one containing engraved glass in the margin panes.

The interior of the ground-floor rooms have largely been combined to form a restaurant. The right-hand front room retains an original box cornice on three sides. The kitchen has a complete original moulded cornice. A wide fireplace is set into the rear wall, featuring a moulded wooden cornice. Flanking the fireplace, high up, are cupboards with cupboards with sunk, bolection-moulded panelled doors and hinges. Other ground-floor rooms have cornices dating from the early or mid-19th century.

An original wooden dog-leg staircase rises from the ground floor to the top floor. It features closed strings, pulvinated detailing, stout turned balusters, square newels with flat moulded caps, and a flat moulded handrail. The front rooms on the first floor also have early or mid-19th century cornices. The right-hand room contains a wooden chimneypiece, likely dating from around 1900, with an original cast-iron grate and green-tiled surround. All three rooms on the third floor have six-panelled doors; the door in the left front room has a two-fillet ovolo-moulded panel, the door in the right room has raised-and-fielded, one-fillet ovolo-moulded panels, and the door serving the wing has ogee-moulded panels. The right-hand front room contains an early or mid-19th century chimneypiece with a cast-iron basket grate. The property was formerly held by the Bideford Bridge Trust and initially leased to Richard Smith in 1692/3, who died in 1704 and was subsequently succeeded in the lease by his widow, Mary, in 1705.