Description

Earlier 19th century. 2-storey; 4-bay near-symmetrical inn adjacent to canal bank. Coursed sandstone; now painted for main front; rubble for side elevations; stugged sandstone margins and quoins. Base course.

MAIN ELEVATION: 4-bay; disposed 1:3. Depressed carriage-arch pend (now glazed and converted) and adjacent door comprise bay to outer left. Archway in slightly recessed panel; exposed keystone. Narrow 2-leaf boarded door immediately to right; 4-pane letter-box fanlight. 3-bays to right; door at centre; flanking windows. Bridge Inn sign above 2 outer right bays. 1st floor windows in same proportional arrangement.

SIDE ELEVATION TO LEFT: gable with unsympathetic modern, rendered, flat-roofed bowed addition at ground floor. High rubble enclosing wall to left; rubble with semi- circular coping.

SIDE ELEVATION TO RIGHT: gable; centre ground floor window above raised basement (ground steps down to canal bank); 2 windows at centre at 1st floor. Modern sign accross gablehead. Lean-to addition to outer left at ground. Flat-roofed single storey, sandstone addition to right; dormerhead of rear jamb visible behind. Modern pentangular addition to right; stone steps down to canal bank.

12-pane sash and case windows; grey slate roof; ashlar coping to skews, skewputts. Coped apex stacks; off- centre ridge stack.

Statement of Interest

The Bridge Inn was probably opened to serve the traffic generated by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Canal.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56631597

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