Ha’penny Bridge Café — Bachelor's Walk

Terraced two-bay four-storey house over basement, built c.1725, restored c.1995, now in mixed commercial and office use with Victorian shopfront to ground floor. Hipped artificial slate roof with steep pitch set perpendicular to street behind rendered parapet wall with moulded parapet cornice and frieze. Large brick chimneystack with clay and terracotta pots to east party wall. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls with rusticated rendered soldier quoins. Square-headed window openings with stucco surrounds, painted granite sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows. Continuous sill course to third floor. Enlarged window opening to ground floor, encroaching on basement level, with bipartite timber display window flanked by flat-panelled pilasters and scrolled console brackets supporting timber fascia and drip cornice. Round-headed door opening with early timber door having seven raised-and-fielded panels flanked by later flat-panelled pilasters and scrolled console brackets supporting lintel cornice and three-pane spoked fanlight with glazed hub. Door opens onto platform with replacement granite paving, wrought-iron boot-scrape and six granite steps. Platform enclosed by replacement railings on granite plinth wall with replacement moulded granite coping. Basement enclosed by wrought-iron railings on rendered plinth wall to east, shared replacement granite plinth wall to west. Basement area now paved flush to street enclosed by replacement steel railings.