Bridgeways, Oldbury House

Bridgeways, Oldbury House is a former rectory built around 1833 by Rowland Paul, which later became St. George's Diocesan Training School and is currently used as a therapeutic home for adolescents as of November 1985. The building features a rendered exterior on a plinth and has a hipped slate roof with small rendered ridge stacks that have a moulded cornice. The two-storey front range includes seven windows: the first floor has 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has 18-pane sash windows, all with moulded architraves. The end bays are slightly set forward, and the centre bay projects, featuring an Ionic portico with twin unfluted columns, a plain architrave, frieze, cornice, and a wrought iron balustrade that creates a balcony. The central double leaf door consists of six panels, with the top four being fielded and the lower two moulded and recessed, accompanied by a wide margin glazed fanlight and side lights. Some glazing bars are missing on the ground floor. The interior retains much of its original joinery, particularly the internal shutters on both floors and the carved doorcases. Several later additions have been made to the rear, but these are not of special interest.