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Clarke's or Bridge House — Lower Bridge Street

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Clarke's or Bridge House — Lower Bridge Street
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Attached three-bay three-storey house, c.1825. Renovated, c.1875, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Extensively renovated, c.1950, with frontage remodelled to accommodate use as guesthouse. Refenestrated, c.1975. Now disused to right ground floor. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having corbel tables, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having corbel table. Painted rendered walls with rendered piers to corners having moulded reveals, rendered stringcourses to each floor, and rendered surrounds to gables on corbel tables. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills forming sill courses, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1975, retaining one-over-one timber sash window to side (south-west) elevation. Reconstituted limestone shopfront, c.1950, to right ground floor having terrazzo threshold with panelled piers sweeping into consoles (responsive pier to left ground floor), fixed-pane timber windows, replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1975, raised lettering, and projecting course over. Road fronted at junction of two roads with concrete footpath to front.

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