The Bridge Café

The Bridge Café, originally known as the Keswick Industrial Arts, is a building constructed between 1893 and 1894 by the architectural firm Paley, Austin and Paley for Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. It features snecked stone and Westmorland slate roofs, displaying a local vernacular style with an L-shaped plan. The building is two storeys tall with an attic on the front elevation, and it has single-storey workshops attached at the rear.

The main entrance is located in the third bay of the first floor, accessible via an attached spiral-stair drum that leads to a four-bay plain wooden verandah. The front facade includes a painted wooden inscription quoting Robert Browning above the altered three-bay window at ground level, which reads: "The loving eye and patient hand, shall work with joy and bless the land." On the first floor, there are two 32-pane windows and a half-glazed door set back at verandah level, topped by a long roof dormer. The facade is completed by a two-storey gabled end bay featuring two ground-level windows and a canted oriel window above. The front gable, side gable, and double rear gables are all covered with Westmorland slates down to the eaves level. The rear elevation, which is also two storeys high, has a six-light, canted bay window on the first floor.

Although the interior was not inspected, the building is included in the register due to its historical association with Canon Rawnsley, who was a patron of Beatrix Potter and co-founder of the National Trust. He, along with his wife Edith, who supervised the teaching of metalwork, established the Keswick School of Industrial Arts in 1883.