29, Shude Hill

A warehouse, likely dating to around 1810, and altered subsequently. It is constructed of brick in English garden wall bond, with the facade rendered in stucco, except for a glazed screen at the first floor. The building has a hipped slate roof. The layout is a right-angled Z-plan, incorporating a front range on a narrow plot perpendicular to the street, a range to the right connected from the rear of the front range, and a short rear wing. All sections are single-depth. The warehouse is three storeys high, with cellars, and features a three-bay facade. The facade includes a plinth, stuccoed rustication at ground floor level, a first-floor sill band, an overhanging second floor with a sill band, and prominent bracketed eaves. The ground floor has an altered central doorway flanked by almost-square windows with altered glazing. The first floor has a full-width opening with an iron lintel supported by four slender twisted cast-iron columns, behind which is a tripartite glazed screen with horizontal glazing bars. The second floor has segmentally headed sash windows without glazing bars. The left return wall has segmentally headed windows, with those at ground floor mostly blocked, and alterations to the fourth bay suggesting a former loading slot. Most of the windows are sash windows without glazing bars, with the exception of one 12-pane sash in the fourth bay. The rear of the range connected at right angles is five bays wide, with similar segmentally headed windows. The rear wing includes a doorway near the angle, two blocked windows above it, another window at second-floor level, and a former doorway at first floor with a small cast-iron balcony on ornamental cast-iron brackets. The interior features a uniform construction, including cellars, with wooden beams with small chamfer, the inner ends supported on rounded piers, alongside some intermediate cast-iron columns with small moulded caps and square abaci. A king-post roof incorporates wrought-iron stirrups and peg-and-cottar fixings, haunched and jowelled king-posts with fishbone struts, and trenched overlapped purlins. Deeds indicate a 1810 conveyance relating to the property.