29, Effingham Street

No 29 on Effingham Street is a house dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed of red brick, which is partly painted, and may have a timber-framed origin. The roof is machine tiled and features two storeys, an attic, and a basement, with kneelered parapet gables. There is a flat-roofed dormer with sash windows, and chimney stacks on both the left and right sides. On the first floor, there are two segmentally headed glazing bar sashes, both with 16 panes but slightly different sizes, along with a blocked narrow window opening to the left. The ground floor includes an early 19th-century canted bay with casement windows and a glazed 20th-century door to the right, set in a simple mounded surround with a cornice on brackets.

Inside, the house features large fireplaces with brick coving, and Delft tiles inserted into one fireplace, dated around 1703. The main ceiling beams are ovolo moulded, with many posts made from re-used ships' masts and spars, which still show signs of tarring and rope marks. Brick paviours are also present. The roof is a clasped purlin construction made of Baltic pine, with notched pegs and visible carpenter's marks, along with remains of thatching. Sections of earlier and hardwood timbers in the wall plate suggest an earlier framed origin, and there is a site report indicating that this area was previously a farm or brickworks before early 18th-century development, with the adjacent No. 31 being the main range. The interior also includes a newel stair and cellars with arched niches, as well as a large arched support for the main stack.