Number 23 Row Number 29 Street

Number 23 Row, Number 29 Street is an undercroft and town house, rebuilt largely in the mid-18th century and altered in the early 19th and 20th centuries. It is now a street shop and a shop on Row. The building is constructed of painted stone-dressed brickwork with a Flemish bond to the front, and the roof is not visible.

The exterior presents four storeys over one bay, encompassing both street and Row levels. A modern shopfront of no particular interest at street level obscures the lower part of the end piers, which are visible at Row level as painted rusticated stone. Early-19th century cast-iron railings front the Row. A stallboard, 1.9 metres deep, has a covered and painted surface and side walls, probably of stone. The Row walkway surface is also covered, with a segmental arch at each end. The Row shopfront, retaining a domestic character, has a window with removed glazing bars and a painted stone doorcase with an eaved architrave and cornice. The interior has a plastered ceiling with a moulded cornice, and moulded capitals to the end piers. The bressumer is covered. The third and fourth storeys feature painted stone rusticated quoins. The third storey window is a tripartite recessed sash, originally of 4;12;4 panes, with bars removed from the lower leaf of the central sash, set within a painted stone case with panelled end-pilasters, square mullions, a frieze and cornice. The fourth storey floorband is thinly rusticated, and the tripartite window of 3;9;3 panes also sits within a painted stone case on four cyma corbels, with an eared architrave and pedimental head. A painted stone frieze and cornice concludes with plain pedimental coping.

The interior of the street shop, which was a restaurant at the time of inspection, has covered surfaces with no datable features visible. The front room at Row level features a door architrave and cornice, while the rear room has been stripped. The open-well staircase has an open string, replaced newels, two column-on-vase balusters per step, a swept rail, all painted. There are cornices under the stair and to the landings. The third floor has cornices and architraves, with a 16-pane sash to the rear. The fourth floor's front room retains a cornice and two simple fireplaces; other features have been stripped.