Bridge House — T.F. Meagher Street

Detached five-bay two-storey over basement sandstone ashlar Classical-style bank, c.1840, with single-bay two-storey pedimented breakfront. Extensively renovated, c.1990, to accommodate use as offices. Hipped slate roof behind parapet with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Sandstone ashlar wall to front (north-east) elevation with cut-limestone quoins to corners, cut-stone course to first floor, unpainted rendered walls to breakfront with rendered quoined piers to ground floor having rendered inner pilasters supporting frieze, cut-limestone quoins to first floor, and rendered frieze having moulded cornice with plain surround to pediment, and rendered blocking course to parapet. Painted rendered walls to side elevations, and to rear (south-west) elevation. Square-headed window openings with stone sills (forming sill course to first floor), and moulded cut-limestone surrounds having decorative cast-iron sill guards to ground floor, and friezes and triangular pediments to first floor. Square-headed window opening to first floor breakfront with rendered panelled ‘balconette’ having flanking piers, and moulded rendered surround. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1990, to all window openings. Square-headed door opening with cut-limestone step having cast-iron bootscraper, replacement timber panelled double doors, c.1990, overlight, and replacement fixed-pane uPVC sidelights, c.1990. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.