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3– 7 odd BRIDGE END 1 QUAY WALLS |
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Nos 3 and 7 plus No 1 Quay Walls and railings. Grade II
Houses. 1869. Gothic Revival style. Ashlar with ashlar dressings and Cumberland slate roof with crow stepped gables. A single ridge and 2 gable stacks. Contrasting sand stone cill and impost bands, plus chamfered plinths. 2 storey plus basement. Bridge End front 3 bays with to the right a moulded and pointed arch doorway with moulded hood, door and overlight with small oculus. To the left 2 shouldered arched plain sashes with small oculi, within chamfered pointed arches. Above 3 segment headed plain sashes topped on crow stepped gables. Single bay chamfered corner front topped with crow stepped gable, with a plain sash with oculus above within a chamfered, pointed arch. Above a projecting balcony with strapwork balustrade and a shouldered arched plain sash with a strapwork pediment inscribed 1869. The Quay Walls front, 3 bay with central projecting, gabled porch with moulded and pointed arched doorway, with door overlight and oculus within. Either side are single shouldered arch plain sashes with oculi, within chamfered painted arches above 3 central lancets with single plain sashes, flanked by single segment headed plain sashes with crow stepped gables. spear head railings to Bridge End front.
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Early photograph showing the site before the present buildings were constructed |