Description

BRIDGWATER

ST3037 FORE STREET
736-1/6/64 (North side)
Nos.4 AND 6

GV II

Two shops. c1880s/90s. Flemish-bond brick with stone bands and
dressings; plain tile hipped roof with terra-cotta finials;
ornamental brickwork and projecting terracotta dragons to the
corners of a left-of-centre ridge stack. Double-depth plan.
Queen Anne style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. 2
forward-facing gables with deep modillioned eaves and resting
on a similar cornice each have an oculus in the apex. Stone
bands at lintel level and string-courses at cill level. The
second floor has two 3-light stone mullioned and transomed
windows with 4 small panes to the tops, under wide moulded
segmental arches with carved blocking and plain keystones
dying into the cornice. These flank a central single-light
window with 6 small panes above the transom. The first floor
has a similar window to the centre flanked by 2-light canted
bays with stone mullions and transoms, carved corbelling below
and cornices with blocking courses above. The C20 shopfronts
are flanked by pilasters with rusticated blocking topped by
urn finials on foliate panelled blocks. INTERIORS not
inspected. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: ST2999637104

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569491

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