33, St Andrews Street

This is a merchant's house, likely dating from the mid-15th century, with significant remodeling in the late 16th and 17th centuries. The front gables and roof structure were replaced in the 1920s, and the entire building was restored in the 20th century.

The building is constructed primarily of stone rubble side walls, corbelled to each floor at the front, with stone rubble to part of the ground floor and the rear gable end. The front is timber-framed and plastered, with jetties to each floor. It has slate roofs and a pair of steep gables at the front, featuring molded barge boards with turned pendants. A rubble lateral stack is situated on the left side.

The building has a deep plan, fronting directly onto the street with a through passage on the right, leading to a central courtyard that is the width of the passage. The exterior is three stories plus attic level. The upper floors feature continuous transomed mullioned windows. There are 17th-century or restored molded oak windows and molded bressumers with leaded glazing; each gable has a two-light window. The second floor has two four-light oriel windows centered on the gables, with molded sills on brackets and a heavy molded headrail that forms a jetty over the flanking windows, with a small light at each end. The first-floor window is a full-width shallow oriel, divided into four bays, each with four lights and king mullions. The ground floor incorporates a 20th-century four-by-four-light transomed mullioned window to the left and a molded four-centered arched granite doorway with carved spandrels to the right.

Recessed bays on the right-hand return are slate-hung to the upper floor and timber-framed and jettied below, featuring wide transomed mullioned windows to the inner angles of the jettied floors. A window on the ground floor extends under an outshut. The rear of the building includes an outshut on the left and slate hanging to the upper floor over a 20th-century reconstruction of a first-floor three-light transomed oriel window and a wide passage below. A 20th-century fire escape is located to the right of the passage. Some granite two-light mullioned or single-light windows are found in the rubble side walls.

The interior, which was in poor condition prior to restoration, now primarily features 20th-century replica timberwork. Original features include chamfered granite fireplaces with some painted decoration, plain joists, some oak panelling, ovolo-moulded doorframes, and a newel staircase midway on the left. Evidence of numerous phases of construction and painted decoration were revealed during repairs.