Company Offices, No. 13 Bath Road, Wallbridge, including railings to canal towpath

This building, originally built as company offices in 1795/6, served as the headquarters for the Company of Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation. It incorporated a board room, offices, and a clerk’s residence. The offices were designed by William Franklin.

The building is constructed from coursed local limestone with an ashlar façade, quoins, and dressings. A flank wall on the north-west side is of red brick. The main roof is covered with clay tiles. The building is largely rectangular, with the north corner shortened to align with the canal towpath, and a projecting wing to the south corner.

The two-storey building has an attic and a pitched roof. The five-bay façade has a central three-bay section that projects forward under a steep pediment with an oval window in the tympanum. The single-bay wings on either side are topped by stone parapets with a simple cornice and blocking course that ramp up towards the central pediment. The windows are timber sash windows, evenly spaced, though the upper right bay has a blind opening. The doorway is to the left of centre, set above three stone steps, and includes a rectangular transom light. The lowest step, along with the two cellar windows to the right, is partially hidden by the raised ground level.

The south-east elevation shows a single-storey rear section of the south wing under a pitched roof. The main range extends two bays further back and includes a 20th-century fire escape with a timber porch leading to a first-floor doorway. The rear of the building is of rubble stone, with mullioned and architraved window openings. The north-west elevation is primarily brick with sash windows facing the canal, featuring stone keystones and voussoirs. Late 18th-century iron railings, with urn finials at intervals, run along the canal towpath and are contained within a low cement wall. Later buildings are attached to the north-east, seemingly incorporating a late 18th-century garden wall.

Inside, the narrow central hallway has a staircase with a later balustrade. The main rooms on either side of the hallway retain some rebated window shutters and other late 18th-century joinery. The interiors of both floors have been adapted for later uses but still possess late 18th-century/early 19th-century features such as simple Regency fireplaces, ceiling roses, cornices, and window shutters. The pegged roof structure is visible in the attic.