29 and 31 Stodman Street

This is a pair of late 18th-century town houses, located at 29 and 31 Stodman Street. One house has a late 19th-century shopfront, while the other features a late 20th-century shopfront. The houses are built of brick walls with timber windows and are covered by a clay pantile roof.

The houses have a double pile depth, meaning they are two rooms deep. They consist of a rectangular block with short ends facing east and west, and a front facing Stodman Street to the north, alongside a narrower block of the same width adjoining to the south. The building is situated next to other properties to the east and south.

The building has three storeys and a double-pitched roof with an “M” profile and hips at the east and west ends. Each roof section has two chimney stacks rising through the ridge near the hips. Windows in number 29 are all two-over-two sash windows, whereas number 31’s windows are generally six-over-six sash windows.

The north-facing façade, fronting Stodman Street, is painted brick in a Flemish bond pattern. It is divided into six bays by the window openings on the first and second floors; two bays belong to number 29 (to the east), and four to number 31 (to the west). The ground floor shopfront of number 29 dates to the late 19th century and has plain pilasters, carved scroll brackets to its cornice, and a cast iron crest above. It has plate glass windows with brass mullions, framing a central recessed glazed door with an overlight. The shopfront of number 31 is believed to have been added in the late 1980s, featuring a plain fascia and deeply recessed, off-centre, glazed double doors, flanked by a two-pane window to the left and a single-pane window to the right. On the first floor, each of the six bays has a window. On the second floor, number 29 has a window in each of its two bays, but two of the four openings in number 31’s bays are blocked. All window openings are topped with flat-arch brick lintels.

The west elevation faces St Mark’s Place and is brick in three bays, two of which belong to the northern section of the double pile building. These northern bays are painted, while the rear, southernmost bay shows exposed brick. A dentil course runs along the eaves, a feature not present on the front façade. The northern bay has the side return of the 20th-century shopfront at ground floor level and is solid above. The rest of the ground floor is also solid, but with blocked doorways set within segmental brick arches in the central and southern bays. The central and southern bays each have a window at first and second floors; the second-floor window in the second bay is a three-over-six sash window. These windows are also topped with segmental arch brick lintels. The west elevation includes pattress plates between the first and second floors, and a sign reading 'St Mark’s Lane, leading to St Mark’s Place' is situated at ground floor level in the central bay.