29, Bailey Street

29 Bailey Street is a house that has been converted into a shop and restaurant. It dates back to the early 17th century and has seen later additions and alterations. The building is timber framed with plaster infill and features a slate roof. It stands two storeys high with attics and has three gables, one of which projects over a passageway. The timber framing is visible up to the first floor and includes decorative herringbone work that creates lozenge shapes, along with incised quatrefoils and trefoils on the middle rail. There is further decorative carving on the rail above the window of the left gable. The gables also feature cusped fretwork bargeboards and pointed finials, likely added in the 19th century.

The passageway on the left has close studding and a long straight tension brace on the right wall, along with heavy chamfered beams and flat joists. A dragon beam connects to a rail that has mortice holes for vertical posts. The first floor and attic have mid-19th century windows, including three-light horizontal sliding sash windows on each gable and a narrow pointed window with Gothic glazing above. Below, there are 20th-century shopfronts. The building has a red brick stack in the roof slope behind the ridge on the right and an internal end stack on the left, also behind the ridge.

At the rear, there is a two-storey rendered range, which may be hiding timber framing, and it has two ridge stacks. Spur stones can be found in the passageway. Inside, the first floor features exposed timber framing with square panels, straight tension braces, and herringbone decoration forming lozenge patterns. There is also an inserted chamfered cross-beam ceiling. This building is listed as Grade II* because it is a notable example of a substantial early 17th-century town house.