16 Bridge Street

Nos 14, 15, and 16 Bridge Street form a row of three, three-storey houses. They likely date from the 18th century, and possess group value from their contribution to the streetscape. The front walls are faced with a cement rendering, with quoins and a plinth. Nos 14 and 15 each have a four-window front, with a doorway in the further blank bay at the right-hand end. The quoins to the right-hand side are long and short. Three moulded, round-headed doorcases feature open pediments, fluted pilasters, six-panelled doors, and fanlights. The three middle bays have sash windows with glazing bars on both upper floors; the top floor has 12-pane sashes (4 over 8), while the first floor has 16-pane sashes. There are two three-light sash windows on the ground floor, one to each side of the central doorcase. The central doorcase has plain reveals, a semi-circular fanlight with radiating tracery, and a six-panelled door. The bay at the left-hand end has blind window openings on the second and first floors, with a doorcase leading to a passage on the ground floor; this doorcase has reinstated plain reveals, a blocked tympanum, and a six-panelled door. The doorcase to No 14, in the blank bay, has a dentiled pediment, fluted pilasters, panelled reveals, a six-panelled door and a semi-circular fanlight with radiating tracery. No 16 has a three-window front and a slate roof with a higher ridge. Window openings are framed by moulded architraves with long and short quoins. It has sash windows; the second floor windows are 12-pane (4 over 8), while elsewhere, 16-pane sashes are present. The central round-headed doorway has fluted pilasters, a dentiled pediment, panelled reveals, a semi-circular fanlight with radiating tracery, and a six-panelled door. To the rear of No 16 is an L-plan outbuilding block, built between the 18th and 19th centuries. The wing aligned north-west to south-east has stone rubble walls and a roof mainly of modern tiles, with an opening with brick head and dressings in the end. The north-east elevation has five bays, with upper floor openings set at eaves, and ground floor openings which have been blocked with brick. The wing at right angles, aligned north-east to south-west and passing the rear of Nos 14 and 15 Bridge Street, has stone rubble walls with a slate gabled roof; a loft door with a brick head is present in the north-east elevation. The interior is noted for its good quality features, namely stairs, contemporary cornices, chimney pieces and doors.