No 13 And Attached Rear Garden Walls

No. 13 is a mid-18th century house situated in Bridgwater. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick, with a stone cornice and cills, and has a slate roof, hipped at the front and rear, with a brick stack to the right. The house follows a double-depth plan and extends over three storeys, with a semi-basement, and originally had a three-window front. Above the moulded cornice and parapet is a row of upstanding cast-iron embellishments. The windows have slightly cambered, gauged brick arches. The windows contain 3/6-pane sashes to the second floor, 6/9 panes to the first floor, and 6/6 panes to the ground floor. The basement windows have 20th-century frames with bars.

The front doorway is framed by a moulded architrave with ornamental consoles supporting a deeply moulded pediment over a semicircular fanlight. The spandrels of the fanlight have foliate ornament, and the six raised-and-fielded panels of the door feature a smaller central panel.

The rear elevation displays flat gauged brick arches to late 19th-century 2/2-pane sash windows on the second floor. A mid-19th century cantilevered semi-elliptical balcony with cast-iron trellised railings (with stars at the joints) and a semi-domed roof of 20th-century roofing-felt tiles projects from the first floor. A full-height bay window follows the shape of the balcony, and much of the glass is curved; French windows are positioned centrally. A wide mid-19th century 8/8-pane tripartite sash window is set into the ground floor, and the basement has a 4/8-pane sash window.

The interior features an entrance hall with slate steps leading to a mid-19th century inner door with margin panes and two semicircular arches. The front room contains triple-hung counter-balanced sash shutters and a narrow mid-19th century reeded cornice. The mid-19th century staircase has a swept mahogany handrail and stick balusters, supported by a closed string. Recesses and cupboards are found in the former service stairwell. A ground-floor rear room has 19th-century pine floorboards, a narrow reeded cornice and panelled shutters (now fixed) to the tripartite window. The room above contains a late 19th-century white marble fireplace with an ornamented arch-plate register grate, a highly ornamented cornice with a stiff-leaf frieze, a foliate ceiling rose and high skirting board. The first-floor front room has a simple 18th-century painted stone fireplace. A 19th-century cast-iron front with raised lozenge panelling remains in the rear basement room, which formerly contained an open fireplace. A segmental stone arch is incorporated into the rear room's open fireplace.

The rear garden is enclosed by approximately 40 metres of Flemish bond brick walls, around 2 metres high at the house and stepping down to 1 metre at the end. The wall's plinth, nearest the house on the east side, is constructed of limestone rubble, suggesting a former building stood on this site.