1-9 Bridge Street, 26 Park Road

Architectural Description from National Heritage List Text Entries, © Historic England 2021.

3-9 Bridge Street

4 houses. 1894. By Douglas and Fordham. Brick with terracotta dressings and tile roof. 2 storeys, 6 bays. End bays project at angle, are canted and have hipped roofs with finials, central bays have canopy to ground floor and shaped gables with ball finials. Ground floor has double-chamfered-mullioned windows, ogival heads to lights, end 8-light windows, central bays have 5-light canted bays. 1st floor has 6-light end windows, other bays have windows of 3 lights with shaped heads, tympana with blind tracery, central pairs with blind roundel. Entrances have decorated lintels and doors with vertical strips and 3 leaded lights, flanking ogee-headed lights. 2 cross-axial stacks and projecting gable-end stacks. Returns have diapering and tile-hung gables. Dated rainwater heads.

26 Park Road and 1 Bridge Street

Pair of houses. Brick with terracotta dressings, timber-framed 1st floor and tile roofs 2-storeys, 3 bays, 1st bays recessed by one bay, under gable; jettied 1st floor. Decorated bressumer and barge boards. Windows have leaded casements. Ground floor has 2- light mullioned windows; 3rd bay has 3-light canted oriel. 1st floor has rectangular oriels of 4 and 3 lights with 2 lights to either side of the lst; 3rd bay has 3-light window. Entrances have doors with vertical strips and 3 leaded lights, that to No. 26 with elliptical head and hood, that to No. 1 with decorated lintel. Left return has lateral stack with round shafts and fire window to 1st bay, then 4-light canted bay window. 2nd bay has canted bay window with 1st floor jettied over. 3-light window to ground floor and 4-light projecting window to 1st floor. Lantern on wrought iron bracket to angle of No. 26.