3 Bridge End

Cadw's description

Location

Houses located at the junction of Bridge End and Castle Road, facing the road bridge over the River Camlad and in a position slightly set down from the road.

History

Originally a 3-unit house, which has subsequently been subdivided to form 2 dwellings. There is a date stone high in the wall above the front door with an inscribed date of 1778 and the initials P and B. Marked on the Tithe Map as House, Shop, Buildings.

Exterior

3-window range, 2 storeys and an attic. The walls have been raised and the dormers added to form the attic storey. Constructed of coursed masonry under a slate roof with red brick end and ridge stacks. The original doorway is located to right of centre inside a modern lean-to porch, with the date stone above. No 3 forms the two northern bays, and has 12-pane iron casements with quadrant stays and flat-arched voussoir heads The windows in the dormers are the same, suggesting refenestration when the attic storey was added. Plain N gable end with some rendering. The southern unit (no 2) has modern windows in original openings.

Interior

No access to the interior at time of inspection (February 1996).

Reason for designation

Listed as a largely unaltered, stone town house of 1778, in a prominent location at the W end of the village.