Bridge Inn and Attached Railings, Daneshouse with Stoneyholme, Burnley, Lancashire, BB11 (Grade II)

BURNLEY

SD8432NW BRIDGE STREET 906-1/16/24 (East side) Bridge Inn and attached railings

Public house. Dated 1905 at corner of ground floor. Coursed sandstone rubble with freestone dressings, slate roof hipped at the corner. Edwardian Baroque style. Irregular plan on acutely-angled corner site. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, with 4 windows to Bridge Street, a narrow single-window splayed corner and a 5-window entrance front to Bank Parade; with dressed quoins, a plain frieze and modillioned cornice broken at the corner by a pedimented feature. The 4-window facade to Bridge Street is regular, with sashed windows to both floors in vertically-linked architraves, all with plain aprons and raised sills, those at ground floor with panelled pilaster jambs, plain friezes and moulded cornices, and those above with shouldered architraves and small cornices. The 5-window facade to Bank Parade is similar except in the 1st bay, which has coupled windows on both floors, with engaged Tuscan columns to ground floor, and the 2nd bay which has a tall doorway with a panelled pilastered architrave, moulded lintel, plain frieze and dentilled cornice, and panelled double doors with a large overlight. The splayed corner has a carved cartouche at ground floor with raised lettering “BRIDGE INN / 1905”, a narrow sashed window at 1st floor with a moulded architrave, pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice; and, above this, a pilastered segmental-pedimented feature with a shouldered panel containing carved Art Nouveau foliation surrounding raised lettering “G.D.L.F.”. Ridge chimneys. INTERIOR altered. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the front area to Bridge Street is enclosed by wrought-iron railings in 6 sections, with an Art Nouveau panel in the centre of each.