4, East Quay

BRIDGWATER

ST3037 EAST QUAY 736-1/6/59 (East side) 24/03/50 No.4

GV II

House, now offices. Early/mid C18. Stucco with painted stone cornices, architraves, doorcase and plinth; painted English-bond brick wing to the left; parapeted roof not visible; brick stacks to gable ends. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys; 5-window range. The main house has near-symmetrical 4-window front with a single lower range to left beyond the pilaster. The attic storey has cornice and blocking course flanked by narrow pilasters and eared and shouldered architraves to 3/3-pane sash windows. The first floor, below a deeper cornice and with wider pilasters, has keyed segmental arches to moulded architraves and shallow aprons to 6/6-pane sashes; windows to ground floor are similar but the lower panes of the outer ones are plate-glass. The fine pedimented doorcase with a Gibbs surround to left of centre has double 2-panel doors. The range to left, formerly part of the warehouse to left, Nos 5-7 (qv), reaches the upper cornice of the main block; the second floor is blank, first floor has a shallow segmental arch to a 6/6-pane sash window and a wide C20 below. INTERIOR: the central hall has an early C19 staircase to left and a 6-panel door to rear service wing in a reeded cornice with roundels to the corners and a fanlight with Gothick glazing bars above. The staircase to second floor is early/mid C18, with closed string, turned balusters and a moulded and swept handrail. (Squibbs PJ: Squibbs' History of Bridgwater: Chichester: 1988-: PL 77).

Listing NGR: ST3008437153