NHER 46496 (Building record) - 2 and 4, Bridge Street

2 and 4 Bridge Street, including Bankhouse and No 1 Minstergate. Listed 1971, grade II.
Range of shops, now bank and shop. Early 19th century. Gault brick and slate roofs. Recessed five-bay block with projecting wings right and left. Two storeys. Between side wings is a single-storey 20th century extension now forming entrance. Ground floor with rusticated brick plinth. Projecting centre bay under pediment. Five unhorned sash windows with 6/6 glazing bars. Dentil eaves cornice below low parapet and gabled roof. Internal gable-end chimneystacks. Left (south) wing with three late 19th century round-headed sash windows separated by engaged columns to ground floor. Above is a tripartite sash window under a segmental arch, also late 19th century. Right is a sash window blocked in the 20th century. Right (north) wing with a mid 19th century plate-glass shop front with a row of upper lights. Egg-and-dart cornice below pediment with dentils. One sash window to left, formerly 6/6, now without upper glazing bars. Two similar, intact, first-floor sash windows. Wings have hipped roofs reduced in size and rebuilt in the 20th century. Scattered chimneystacks. Rear with a two-panelled door at first-floor level: seven-vaned fanlight, engaged Tuscan columns and open segmental pediment, not in situ.
Information from (S1).
See (S2) for photograph taken about 1910.