29A and 29 High Street

29A and 29 High Street are a pair of early 19th century houses that were later combined and given a Victorian facade, with an early 20th century shopfront installed on the ground floor.

The north (front) elevation, facing the High Street, is built of Gault bricks with decorative stucco elements and horizontal block plat bands on the upper floors. The ground floor features a glazed shopfront faced with dark red glazed bricks. The side elevations rise above the party walls; the east elevation is concrete rendered while the west is tile hung.

The building is rectangular, with the shorter side fronting the High Street. The historic shape of the original burgage plot has been retained, and the building abuts its neighbors on both sides.

The building is four bays wide and three storeys high. The ground floor is occupied by a symmetrical shopfront with a plate-glass window, recessed doorway, and flanking panelled pilasters. Dark red glazed brick faces the pilasters and stall risers, the latter featuring recessed panels inscribed 'ISLE OF WIGHT' (east side) and 'COUNTY PRESS' (west side). Both recessed doors have small fanlights with rounded top corners, and the plate-glass windows are divided by a central mullion, also with rounded corners. A wide fascia panel, bearing modern signage and canted outwards over the pavement, is topped with decorative, semi-circular caps at each end.

The first floor has a pair of large, square oriel windows with tripartite sash windows, panelled mouldings, aprons and a dentil cornice. Moulded cills are set beneath a horizontal plat band spanning the width of the front elevation. The second floor features four recessed windows with two-over-two sash windows, set within flat arches of Gault brick, each with block cills forming a second plat band. A deep, moulded cornice tops the elevation, with a pediment over the two central bays, which project forward slightly. The roof is hidden behind a brick parapet, with chimney stacks on the party walls. The elevation is flanked by pilasters formed from projecting brickwork which carry drainpipes with funnels at the top.