No 3 and Attached Wall to the Rear

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BRIDGWATER

ST2936NE BLAKE STREET 736-1/11/11 (East side) 16/12/74 No.3 and attached wall to the rear

GV II

House, now offices. C17; remodelled and rebuilt in late C18/early C19; late C19 rear left wing, with gable of same date added to left of front. English-bond brick with some rubblestone to the base, stone coping, moulded kneelers and bands to forward-facing gable, stone cills, pantile roof with brick stacks to left and rear gable ends and stack with moulded brick cornice to the centre ridge. Double-depth plan with late C19 rear left wing. 3 storeys; 4-window range. The exterior walls of the original C17 house are still apparent well inside the C19 building. The late C19 forward-facing gable to the 2 left-hand ranges has 2 slits in the apex between stone bands. Windows to upper floors have flat brick arches to large 6/6-pane sash windows. The 6-panel door with C20 hood to left of centre has a late C19 single-storey canted bay with margin panes to the far left and two C20 casement windows to the right. The left return is Flemish-bond brick. 2 storeys; 3-window range. 6/6-pane sash windows, those to left are tripartite and those to the first floor pass through the eaves line to form late C19 gabled half-dormers lighting the hammer-beam roof inside. The rear has a late C19 two-storey canted bay with 4/4-pane sash windows with margin panes to the ground floor which has restored rendering and cornice; the first floor is C20 weatherboarded with a 9/9-pane sash window to front and vertical 4/6-pane sashes to sides. To right is a semi-elliptical arch to the service area with 6/6-pane sash window above. The right return of the rear wing, clad with painted corrugated iron, has coloured glass to an early C19 semicircular-arched stair window and a single-storey lean-to with a pantile roof and a wide horizontal sash window. The lean-to and the courtyard are stone-flagged. INTERIOR: the exterior walls of the C17 building are distinguishable from those of the C19 by their thickness. The corner of the original building inside the semi-basement to the front left now serves as an interior wall; painted rubblestone with stone plinth capping. This basement also has a repositioned planked and studded door, a C18 door with 4 raised-and-fielded panels, some stone flags and 2 segmental arches to former open fires, that to right framed with early C19 cast-iron panels with anthemion motifs. An early C19 stair hall with staircase was added to the right return and at each landing a semicircular-arched opening has been cut into the thick former outer wall to give access to the C17 newel stair inside. This is in the former front right corner and has a low mid C19 dado rail with panels below, some raised and fielded. Between the first and second floors is a blocked door into the adjacent museum; at this level a semicircular arch made from thin wood with moulded pilasters spans the stairs; just below to right, a jib door, now fixed, cut through the dado and panelling, leads in the same direction. At the top of the newel stairs a heavy planked and studded door with diagonal planks to the back and bar stops to the Tudor-arched moulded architrave, opens into a room with wide oak floorboards and a cupboard with raised-and-fielded panels and H hinges. A locked door leads to the attic (unseen). The late C19 rear wing has an elaborate hammer-beam roof on stone corbels to the second floor and splayed panelled reveals to the first-floor windows. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a high brick wall to the rear right sweeps up to meet the first floor of the Admiral Blake Museum (qv) and encloses the rear service yard.

Listing NGR: ST2999536917

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