8, Bridgeland Street

This is a house, likely built in the 1690s, and now used as offices. It was separated from the adjoining property to the left in 1712. The front is rendered, probably over a brick core, and has a slate roof. The original layout was a one-room width and two rooms deep, with a stair compartment positioned between the front and back rooms. There's an entrance passage on the left side of the front ground floor room, and a small room above it on the first floor. Judging by other similar houses nearby, this building was originally double-fronted, with the rear room being either an original feature or an addition from the 18th century. The height of the building was probably increased from two to three storeys in the late 18th century. It has a two-window front. The ground floor has a 20th-century display window, flanked by two doorways. The door on the left has flanking pilasters, an entablature, and a fanlight, all dating from the 20th century. The second floor features an early 19th-century wooden bay window with six-paned sashes and a bracketed cornice. A six-paned sash window is set in a box frame to the left. The third floor has a concealed-frame sash window with two panes over six panes to the right, and a wooden casement window with two lights of six panes each to the left. A prominent moulded eaves cornice runs along the top.

The interior includes an original wooden dog-leg staircase with pulvinated closed strings, robust moulded balusters, square newels (with 20th-century replacements on the half-landing), and a broad moulded handrail. On the first-floor landing, two original doors with two bolection-moulded panels are present. A winding stair to the second floor, featuring a square newel and moulded handrail, likely led to an original garret. The front room on the first floor has a plain dado with a moulded rail and skirting; a late 18th-century wooden chimney-piece with panelled pilasters, a frieze featuring urns and festoons, and an iron grate from the mid-19th century are also present. The rear room on the first floor has a late 18th-century wall cupboard with panelled doors. On the ground floor, a mid-to-late 19th-century half-glazed inner front door is present, with coloured glass and glazing-bars forming Gothic arches in the upper portion.