Number 25 Row Number 31 Street

Number 25 Row, Number 31 Street is an undercroft and town house, now used as a street shop, Row shop, and offices. It was likely rebuilt in the 1880s, although designs were proposed in 1864 and 1867. The building is constructed of sandstone, partially covered with pebbledash, with timber framing and plaster panels, and has a brown tile roof with a ridge running at a right angle to the street.

The exterior is four storeys plus an attic, encompassing both the street and Row levels, and features a single bay. A modern shopfront of little interest is present on the street, set within a 19th-century timber frame with timber-panelled pilasters and fascia. The Row front has a timber rail with cusped ogee motifs between turned balusters, supported by a heavy moulded rail, with red sandstone end piers extending through the street and Row storeys. The surfaces of the sloping stallboard and Row walk are covered. The end walls of the stallboard are pebbledashed, with moulded brick arches across the Row-walk. The street-level shopfront includes a door on the west side and a six-light mullioned and transomed window. The end piers have moulded sandstone capitals, supporting paired jetty-brackets and shaped brackets to a bressumer, which then carries 14 smaller jetty-brackets. A moulded jetty-beam sits above this, supporting a continuous ten-light mullioned and transomed window. The panes beneath the transom have been replaced, while those above, beneath ogee heads, are leaded glass. A carved frieze and moulded cornice are visible above the oriel. Barleysugar colonnettes on each end post support shaped reeded brackets, contributing to the fourth-storey jetty-beam, with three secondary jetty-brackets on each side of the oriel. The fourth storey features a central square mullioned-and-transomed bay window, sitting above five arched panels and incorporating six lights. The upper 19th-century windows have replaced panes beneath the transom, with leaded glass above that. A corner balcony with spirally-moulded railings and Tudor arches with carved spandrels is found to either side of the bay window. The attic storey, boldly jettied above the bay window, presents eight quatrefoil panels to the front and one on each return. The gable features a mullioned seven-light leaded oriel casement on a coved apron, with basket-arched heads to the lights, carved frieze, and moulded cornice, accompanied by two cusped ogee panels on each side. Shaped reeded brackets support projecting eaves, with spirally-moulded colonnettes contributing to further brackets above the oriel. Herringbone struts flank the oriel, and close studding is visible in the gable apex, alongside moulded bargeboards.

The shop interiors are now covered. While features of the original building have been retained in the upper storeys, lightweight partitioning and linings obscure their impact.