29, St Johns

No. 29 St Johns is a house that has been converted into a shop with flats above. It dates from the late 18th century and has undergone later additions and alterations. The building is constructed of red brick, painted at the ground-floor level, and features stucco dressings and a plain clay tile roof with dentilled eaves. There is a stack on the right front roof slope, which has oversailing detail and pots. The timber shopfront includes cast-iron grilles, and part of the gable visible on the left side is timber-framed. The building has an out-of-square plan, is double depth, and consists of two storeys with attics and a cellar.

On the first floor, there are three windows, with the central window being blind. The stucco details include sills and channelled voussoirs with a keystone above the flat arches over the windows. The sashes are near-flush, with an 8/8 configuration for the first-floor windows and a 2/2 configuration for the left ground-floor window. To the right is an early 19th-century shopfront with an entrance on the left, plain pilasters on plinths, fluted and carved console brackets, a fascia with four metal hooks, a dentilled cornice, and a blind box. The shop window consists of four lights, each with two panes and designed to lift out, featuring old glass, and there is a modern glazed door with a ventilation grille above. Gabled dormers with paired 6-pane side-hung casements are present.

Inside, the upper floors have common joists supported by main beams, and the partition walls are timber-framed. Remnants of an earlier, narrower span collar and purlin roof can still be seen within the current roof structure. The building underwent a major refurbishment in 1992 due to centuries of piecemeal alterations that had led to its poor structural condition. During this refurbishment, the floors were reinforced with plywood cladding and tied into the walls for lateral support.