Waterloo House And Attached Brick Wall To The Rear

BRIDGWATER

ST2936NE ST MARY STREET 736-1/11/174 (South side) 24/03/50 No.41 Waterloo House and attached brick wall to the rear

GV II

Public house. Early/mid C18 with later additions. Flemish-bond brick, painted stone coping to the parapet, cornice, rusticated quoins and architraves; parallel wing to rear is weatherboarded to upper floors; pantile roof with brick ridge stack to rear right wing and truncated stack to right return. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys including substantial C20 attic; 6-window range. C20 rusticated quoins continue above the cornice and flank the c1980 attic storey which is over-size, with 3/3-pane sashes in moulded architraves. Quoins to lower floors have returned cornices stepped forward from the main moulding; first floor has segmental arches to moulded architraves, bracketed cills and 6/6-pane sash windows; 2 similar windows to ground-floor right. Rest of ground floor is articulated by 6 early C19 panelled pilasters supporting a moulded cornice; the 3 bays to left have tripartite windows with octagonal panes to overlights and 3 rows of 3 panes to centre, possibly early C19 also. The 2-paned double doors have large overlight similar to that in Town Hall (qv) of octagonal and square panes; between paired pilasters to right of door is a single column of panes. The C20 stretcher-bond brick wall of right return has been rebuilt below cornice level and has 9 tie-bar end crosses; truncated stack to right of ridge also has a tie-bar end. To right of right return are stepped stone voussoirs to late C18 windows in forward frames and 6/6-pane sashes on both floors; similar smaller window to first-floor right. A further wing to rear is weatherboarded to upper floors with half-hipped roof and 6/6-pane sash window below hip. Rear facade, rebuilt below the eaves, has an early C18 wooden modillion cornice and 4 irregularly-spaced 6/6-pane sash windows. INTERIOR: oval stair-hall to centre of block, lit by window in left return, has an early C19 open-well, open-string staircase with fretted ends, stick balusters and swept handrail. A few early C19 features such as 6-panel doors, internal fanlight remain. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a Flemish-bond brick wall approx 3m high and 30m long, attached to rear of right return, has 5 deep semicircular-arched recesses on the garden side.

Listing NGR: ST2980836933