Castle Garth, Bridge Hotel

This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Public House. Circa 1899 by Cackett, Burns Dick for J. Fitzgerald. Ashlar ground floor, second floor and turret; Flemish bond brick first floor; graduated slate roof. Art Nouveau style.3 storeys; 3 bays, the central wide and the outer projecting slightly, with turret on right bay. High plinth and Tuscan Order attached columns to ground floor, with double doors in architraves in end bays under segmental pediments with carved tympan; Curved windows beside doors and 2 shallow curved bow windows in centre, with pictorial stained glass overlights to doors and windows. High fascia with central bracket to cornice bowed out under wide 1st floor curved oriel; paired sashes above. Left projecting bay has keyed flat brickarch to first floor sash; and paired sashes in arched surround; attached central columns to all paired sashes. Right project- ing bay has similar first-floor sash under 2 slits; prominent cornice with project- ing diagonal spouts; high ramped parapet with cartouches supports squat pilasters; wide bracketed eaves to lantern. Deep dentilled eaves over central bay. High pyramidal roof over left bay and diagonally over lantern. End brick and ashlar chimney. Interior shows high-quality mahogany chimney piece and fittings.' {1}.
The New Bridge Inn in Castle Square was brewing 70 half-barrels per week in the 1850s. John Fitzgerald bought it in 1892 and rebuilt it in 1901. Its name changed to the Bridge in 1955. Free style. McCombie - interior altered but windows still with lovely stained-glass top lights. Bennison - the old Bridge Hotel was run in the 1870s by Robinsons, wine merchants. Fitzgeralds acquired it in the early 1890s when it consisted of a bar, sitting and smoking rooms, kitchen, two bedrooms, two cellars and a tenement of 10 rooms. Fitzgeralds demolished the property in 1901 and erected the existing Bridge Hotel. LISTED GRADE 2