Description

BRIDGWATER

ST2936NE ST MARY STREET 736-1/11/173 (North side) 24/03/50 No.40

GV II

House, now shop. Mid/late C18. Flemish bond brick with stone moulded coping to parapet, dentilled cornice, quoins and cills, later fronted with incised stucco. Double-depth plan with rear wing angled toward the right. Classical style. 3 storeys with attic; 4-window range. Steep mansard hipped pantile roof, 3 brick stacks to right-hand wall. Flat arches over horned sash windows to upper floors, 3/3-panes to second floor, 6/6-panes to first floor. C20 shop with set-back central door and C20 door to upper floor to left. Lead hopper head to rainwater pipe to right. INTERIOR: retains much of the C18 character. To left passage to upper floors has flagstone floor, 2 segmental arches with panelled soffits on moulded consoles and a modillion cornice to front part. Rear doorway has painted semicircular overlight. Front room of shop has dentilled cornice, wide segmental arch to rear and deep segmental recess to right. Rear wing has flagstone floor. Staircase to rear left has swept handrail, tall stick balusters and turned newels; similar staircase to right with stair-hall having a moulded cornice, ceiling rose and frieze; and a segmental arch to stair window on right return. Room to first-floor rear retains skirting, dado, cornice, 6-panel door with added moulding and mid C18 fireplace with square moulded surround between panelled pilasters below an entablature with central panel and moulded cornice; part of a cupboard with panelled door to right. Windows to front room have moulded architraves and panelled shutters, fireplace early C19 Regency style with reeded surround, square foliate motifs to corners and mid C19 cast-iron arch-plate grate. The cornice was probably embellished mid/late C19. Second-floor landing has an embellished cornice, room to rear has original skirtings, late C19 cast-iron fireplace and 4-panel door; 2 rooms to front, one to right has simple mid C18 wooden fire surround and mid C19 grate. Cupboard on landing has C18 spring catch and H hinges. The trenched purlins in attic have wind-braces to the lower row. Large rear attic room, possibly former workroom, has raised-and-fielded 2-panel door and similar panel to left, dividing wall is C19 tongued-and-grooved. Unlit closet on landing and 2 rooms to front.

Listing NGR: ST2986036972

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