12, 13 AND 14, WEST QUAY

This building comprises numbers 12, 13, and 14 West Quay, Bridgwater, and dates to the early 19th century. Originally offices, it was formerly used as housing. The building is constructed of painted roughcast, with a painted stone cornice and cills, topped by a pantile roof that is hipped at the front, concealed behind a parapet. It follows a double-depth plan with an extension to the right. The main block is three storeys high with a three-window front. A slightly recessed, convex, curved bay sits on the left corner, with a dentilled cornice and parapet that follow the curve. The second floor has 3/6-pane sash windows, the first floor has 6/6-pane sashes, and the ground floor has late 19th-century horned plate-glass sashes. The double doors within the left-hand bayed section are each three-panel. The extension to the right is lower than the main block's parapet, and is also three storeys high, with a two-window front. The second floor of the extension has small two-light casement windows; the first floor has 6/6-pane sashes; and the ground floor has a mid-19th century plate-glass margin-pane sash window. 20th-century metal-framed windows are present on the second floor of the right return. A single-storey, two-bay range, to the north, is built of 18th-century brick (now rendered) and has a pantile roof. The rear wall incorporates part of a 13th-century castle wall. The interior has not been inspected.