29, Bailey Street

SJ 2929 NW OSWESTRY C.P. BAILEY STREET (west side) 14/18 No. 29 10.9.51 GV II House, now shop and restaurant. Early C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with plaster infill, slate roof. 2 storeys and attics; 3 gables, left projecting over passageway; framing: survives to first floor, decorative herringbone work forming lozenge shapes with incised quatrefoils and trefoils to middle rail, further decorative carving to rail above window of left gable; cusped fretwork bargeboards and pointed finial to gables probably C19; passageway to left has close studding with long straight tension brace to right wall, heavy chamfered beams and flat joists with dragon beam to front connecting with rail which has mortice holes for vertical posts; mid-C19 fenestration to first floor and attic, 3-light horizontal sliding sash to each gable on first floor and narrow pointed window with Gothic glazing above, C20 shopfronts below; red brick stack in roof slope behind ridge to right and internal end stack to left, also behind ridge. 2-storey rendered range to rear, possibly concealing timber frame, has 2 ridge stacks. Spur stones to passageway. Interior: first floor has timber frame exposed, square panels with straight tension braces and herringbone decoration forming lozenge patterens; inserted chamfered cross-beam ceiling. Graded II as a good example of a substantial early C17 town house.

Listing NGR: SJ2907129706