Description

BRIDGWATER

ST2937SE HIGH STREET
736-1/10/98 (South side)
16/12/74 Nos.15 AND 17
and attached rear area railings
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(South side)
Nos.13-21 (Odd))

GV II

Two shops with dwellings. Early C19. Flemish-bond brick, stone
stepped voussoirs and cills, continuous pantile roof with
brick stacks to gable ends. Double-depth plan.
3 storeys with basements; each shop 2-window range. 10/10-pane
sash windows with small panes to the second floor; 6/6-pane
sashes to the first floor of No.15 to left, and C20 fixed
louvred windows to No.15. C20 shops below. To rear are wide
bracketed eaves; No.15 is 2-window range with flat gauged
brick arches; 8/12-pane sash windows to second floor;
12/12-pane sashes and a small late C19 window to right of
first floor.
No.17 is similar but wider, with a blind window to left of
centre of second floor flanked by 8/12-pane sashes; 1/6-pane
sash window below is flanked on the left by a 6/6-pane sash
and on the right by a 12/12-pane sash.
Adjacent wide elliptical cream brick gauged arches to ground
floor are over the basement area; in the recesses are flat
gauged brick arches, No.15 has C20 window and No.17 a
10/15-pane sash window; similar flat arches to former basement
windows. The doors flanking these recesses have semicircular
gauged cream brick arches and fanlights with Gothic glazing
bars, No.15 has C20 door; No.17 has 6-panel door, the fanlight
is partly painted over. To far left are 2 small C20 windows.
INTERIORS not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: spearhead railings front the basement
areas to rear of each building.

Listing NGR: ST2978137020

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569332

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