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SO9545 BRIDGE STREET
648-1/5/23 (East side)
11/02/65 No.25
The Brandy Cask
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGE STREET
(East side)
The Brandy Cask)

GV II

Inn. Reputed to date to 1779; early- and late-C19 alterations.
Brick painted or rendered with scored stucco. Left-hand
section has shallow-pitched Welsh-slate roof with moulded
eaves cornice and 2 brick end stacks; canted bay has roof
concealed behind high, coped, parapet; right-hand bay has
replacement plain tile roof with stepped cogged eaves.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar; right-hand bay of 2 storeys.
In three sections, that on left a 2-window range of 8/8 sashes
with painted channelled voussoirs, keystones and sillband to
1st floor; two similar 4/8 sashes above; on ground floor,
plinth, steps up to central 6-panel door with
Gothick-traceried overlight and wooden architrave flanked by
canted bay windows with 2/2 sashes, all under entablature with
triglyph frieze.
On right, late-C19 full-height canted bay has basket-arched
openings with moulded surrounds; 2-pane sashes; on each upper
floor 4 windows, paired at centre, with cable-moulding; on
ground floor, central 6-panel 2-leaf door with overlight
flanked by windows; plinth; 1st-floor string and sill band.
Lower right-hand bay has 2-light window of paired sashes over
segmental-arched carriage entrance.
Rear range includes former liquor store.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO9507045621