11-15 Bridge Street, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT52 1DR

A multi-bay three-storey-with-attic mid-terraced commercial premises, formerly three separate units, incorporating carriage-arch entrance and modern ground floor shopfront; built c.1820 and located to the north side of Bridge Street in Coleraine town centre. Rectangular on plan with single-storey modern flat-roof extension to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded ridge tiles and four rendered chimneystacks (some clay pots only). Plastic rainwater goods on projecting eaves. Walling is smooth cement render, painted to facade; painted brick with a contrasting plinth to east elevation under carriage-arch. Windows are a variety of timber sash with horns, generally 6/6, some panes with original glass, all in moulded architraves with projecting painted sills; openings infilled with concrete blocks to rear elevation; modern plate-glass windows to shop-front. The principal elevation faces south. Seven evenly-spaced window openings to upper floors; modern shop-front with over-sized timber fascia extends almost full-width of ground floor; elliptical-headed carriage-arch entrance at ground floor right, with modern steel fascia and entrance gates. The west gable is abutted to first floor by adjoining building (HB03/18/040); upper gable is blank. The north (rear) elevation is partially concealed with infilled window openings to upper floors and abutted at ground floor by the single-storey rendered extension. To left and far right is a round-headed former stairwell window (infilled). Far left bay has brick corbelled eaves and a single former window opening to second floor over elliptical-headed carriage-arch entrance. The east elevation is abutted at upper floors by the adjoining building. Ground floor, under carriage-arch, has a modern steel door in a plain smooth rendered painted surround, accessed by a single step. Setting: Prominently situated on Bridge Street in Coleraine town centre, forming part of a Georgian terrace of two-and three-storey commercial units in the most-westerly pedestrianised area of the town. Bridge Street leads from the Town Hall (HB03/18/001) at east to the Bann Bridge at west. Carriage-arch entrance is laid with concrete and leads to enclosed yard at rear. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Smooth render Windows: Variety of timber sash with horns RWG: Plastic