No 32 Including Rear Wing

No. 32, including its rear wing, is a building of group value, originally part of a larger house that also included Nos. 30 and 31 Bridgeland Street. The main front range dates to 1692, with later additions, likely from the 19th century, attached. A detached section and a front range at a right angle to it were added during this period.

The front range has solid rendered walls, probably concealing brickwork beneath. The wing’s ground storey is largely of stone rubble with red brick above, though some brick is also present in the ground storey along Queen Street, while the addition is entirely of stone rubble. The Queen Street elevation has been painted. The rear range, at a right angle to the wing, is of stone rubble and roughcast on its south side. Slate roofs cover the main front range, with tiling on a section of the wing and corrugated asbestos on the rear range. The front range has a hipped roof. Chimneys are present on the left side of the front range, on the rear wall, and on the left side-wall of the wing.

The front range is now one room wide and two rooms deep, possibly with two small rooms in the rear from the 19th century. A staircase connects the front and back rooms. The front range has three storeys, while the rear wing has two. The Bridgeland Street frontage is a two-window range. The ground floor has a late 19th or early 20th-century wooden shop front with fluted pilasters and round-headed blocks on paired consoles, forming an entablature. Double doors are recessed between two display windows. Upper floors have six-paned sash windows in recessed box frames, with the second-story sashes featuring horns. A raised band extends along the left side-wall, with the bottoms of the second-story windows cutting into it. The front range has one box-framed, six-paned sash window per storey, and a small-paned round-arched stair window. A five-panelled door is located to the left of the ground-floor shop front. The older part of the wing has three windows and includes an inserted doorway to the left of the right-hand ground-floor window. This window has a segmental arch and a pair of four-paned sashes in a box frame. The window above it rises above the eaves and contains six-paned sashes. Remaining windows are late 19th or 20th-century wood casements with glazing bars. The addition to the wing facing Queen Street has no windows, but the south gable-wall has three windows with slightly curved arches of rough stone voussoirs. The two lower windows have small-paned wood casements that pivot centrally. A wide opening containing late 20th-century glazed double doors is located in the middle of the ground storey.

The interior of the front range is largely unremarkable, apart from an early to mid-19th-century dog-leg staircase with thin square-section balusters, although the bottom part has been rebuilt. The 17th-century section of the rear wing has heavy chamfered ceiling beams on the ground floor, one with scroll-stops at the eastern end, along with plain joists.