30, 32 AND 34, BRIDGE STREET

A row of three cottages, originally one house, likely dating back to the late medieval period, with alterations in the 17th century and extensions probably occurring in the 18th or 19th century when it was subdivided. The construction is of rendered cob and rubble walls, with a thatched roof that is hipped at the left end and gabled to the right. There is a brick axial stack towards the right-hand end, and a large axial stack of roughly squared stone with a dripcourse, a tapering cap, and a brick shaft.

The original layout was a three-room-and-through-passage plan, with the lower end (now No. 34) and the inner room (No. 30) likely extended during subdivision. The hall was heated by an axial stack backing onto the passage. While definitive proof is lacking due to roof access limitations, it is probable that the hall stack is an insertion, and that there may have formerly been an internal jetty in line with the stack at the lower end of the hall, also likely inserted. Later rear additions were built in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The exterior has an asymmetrical six-window front, with two windows per cottage. No. 34, on the left, features a 17th-century chamfered three-light wooden mullion window on the first floor, a 20th-century two-light casement to the right, and a late 19th-century four-panel door on the ground floor. No. 32 has mid-20th-century two-light casements and a 20th-century plank door. No. 30 also showcases early to mid-20th-century two-light casements and a central 20th-century plank door; the right-hand side of this cottage appears to be an addition.

The interior of No. 34 was inaccessible during the survey. No. 30 revealed no early features on the ground floor. In No. 32, the original hall and passage contain several early features, including chamfered cross beams and an open fireplace with an obscured lintel. A blocked doorway with a chamfered roundheaded wooden frame is present high on the hall wall, and a beam above the fireplace may indicate the former location of an internal jetty. The roof displays one substantial side-pegged jointed cruck with threaded purlins. Access to the full roof structure and collar/apex detail is not available.