44 Bridge Street

This is a three-storey house with an attic, dating from the 18th century. The slate roof has bracketed eaves, a large stone chimney, and a small gabled dormer. The front elevation is rendered over stone, with quoins and stringcourses. It features four-pane horned sash windows with hoodmoulds, and a three-storey shallow splayed bay window centrally placed. A doorway to the left has a bracketed cornice, panelled pilasters, a four-panelled door (with glazed upper panels), and a rectangular overlight. The rear elevation is of exposed stone, with four-pane sash windows at stepped levels.

The entrance hall contains a simple moulded plaster arch with timber pilasters decorated with a Greek key design, leading to an open well staircase. The staircase has a moulded timber handrail that spirals at the bottom newel, supported by plain balusters and simply turned newel posts.

The front reception room retains panelled reveals and soffits to the windows, and a six-panelled door with an architrave decorated with incised lines. Features include a central plaster ceiling rose of classical design, moulded cornicing, picture rail, and skirting. There are also two round-headed alcoves either side of the chimneybreast; one contains a fitted cupboard dating to the late 19th century. The fireplace is a replacement from the 1930s or 1950s, with a tiled surround of geometrical design. The rear reception room retains a late Victorian or Edwardian timber fire surround with an integrated circular overmantle mirror and a tiled insert, probably from the 1930s. Six-panelled doors, moulded cornicing, picture rail and skirting from the 19th century remain. The kitchen, located in the rear range, contains fitted units from the 1950s or 1960s.

Cellar rooms are accessible via internal stairs from the rear of the entrance hall, or from external stone steps to the rear of the house. A front cellar room was originally lit by two cellar lights on the street frontage, one of which is now blocked. The rear cellar room contains a large brick and stone fireplace alongside a washing copper heated from below by a small fireplace.

The first floor has two large bedrooms, one retaining a painted Victorian timber fire surround, with a blocked fire opening and possibly removed grate. Window reveals have moulded architraves, with six-panelled doors and fitted cupboards dating from the late 19th/early 20th century.

The attic contains two King Post trusses, both with an interrupted strut for roof access. A straight joint is visible in the stone work of the east wall, suggesting that the massive stone chimney predates the house.