Description

BRIDGWATER

ST2937SE HIGH STREET
736-1/10/102 (South side)
16/12/74 No.25
E H Hooper

GV II

House, now shop. Mid C18. Flemish-bond brick with stone
cornice, platband, keystones and cills, pantile roof, hipped
to the front with a brick stack to right, gabled to the rear
block. Double-depth plan. Mid-Georgian style.
3 storeys; symmetrical 2-window range. The parapet wall,
scrolled to the ends, has a pediment with moulded cornice to
centre resting on main cornice. Flat gauged brick arches with
keystones, 3/6-pane sash windows to second floor, platband
over plate-glass sashes with margin panes to first floor.
The fine late C19 shop to ground floor has a cornice returned
to left over a black and gold mirrored glass fascia with gold
ornamental borders and letters, it reads; "Silk Mercer and
Draper. E.H.Hooper. Millinery and Mantles." The shop door is
glazed with bolection moulding to a horizontal panel to the
base and a brass handle; it is set well back with
polychromatic tiles and an elaborately panelled ceiling to
entrance; moulded glazing bars between 2 plate-glass windows
to each side and left return. To left of left return are
8/8-pane sash windows with thick glazing bars and moulded
forward frames to upper floors, that to second floor at eaves
level, that to first floor under flat gauged brick arch; C20
window to ground floor left, blocked door to right, (cut into
by shop front) below a blind window.
The range to rear of rough Flemish-bond brickwork has blocked
door to first floor. 2 storeys with attic; 3-window range. 2
raking dormers, that to left has 2-light casement window with
cill at eaves level, that to right is a 3-light half-dormer.
Range to left cants back slightly. The first floor has
segmental gauged brick arches to 2/2-panes sashes without
horns, that to right has a wider arch to former wider opening;
3-course brick platband over timber lintels; 6-panel door to
left with 6-pane overlight, C20 windows to centre and right.
INTERIOR: a mid C19 staircase with turned balusters rises to
first floor.
History: the first floor once spanned the footpath to St
Mary's Church (qv); the rough brickwork to first floor was an
interior plastered wall with door; the left-hand part was
demolished late C19. The late C19 shop is of exceptional
quality and makes an important contribution to the High
Street.

Listing NGR: ST2974237005

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584767

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)