29, Churchgate Street

29 Churchgate Street is a shop with a flat above, originally built as a house in the mid-16th century. It was raised and given a new front in the early 19th century. The building is timber-framed and was once jettied, now faced in white brick, with a slate roof featuring paired modillion eaves soffit.

The structure has three storeys and a cellar, with one bay and an extension at the rear. Each upper storey has one window: a 16-pane sash window with deep reveals, a flat gauged arch, and a stone sill on the first storey, and a similar 6-pane sash window on the second storey. The early 19th-century shop front includes fluted pilasters and a cornice fascia, with a modern plate glass window flanked by two doors. The door on the right leads to a passageway that provides access to the rear yard. Inside the passageway, there is an original end wall with widely spaced, substantial studs and plain joists set flat, and the main beam shows bracketing for the former jetty. Within the shop, a main beam in the west side wall is chamfered on both sides with curved step stops and originally served as the centre beam of a two-bay room that extended into the adjoining property, No. 28.