29, Pilton Street

29 Pilton Street is a house that was once a public house, dating back to the 17th century with later alterations. The building is rendered and has a slate roof that is gabled at both ends, featuring a rear lateral stack. Although it has been somewhat altered, the main block is single depth and was likely originally two rooms wide, with No. 30 being a cross-wing at the right end.

The house has two storeys and an asymmetrical front with four windows on the ground floor and three on the first. It has an eaves board and a moulded eaves cornice. The ground floor includes a narrow recessed front door to the left of centre, a tripartite sash window to the left of centre with 12 panes in the centre and 4 panes in the outer lights, and a shallow projecting bay window to the right of the front door with 32 panes and 4 panes on each return. The two ground-floor windows to the right are 4 over 8-pane sashes, while the three first-floor windows are 12-pane hornless sashes.

Inside, the house retains chamfered cross beams, although at least one beam is said to have been introduced from elsewhere. There are remains of a large fireplace at the rear lateral stack, which has been narrowed and bricked in. The 17th-century trusses are mortised at the apex, with the foot of one cut off to create an axial corridor on the first floor.

Historically, the building was recorded as an inn in 1859, named after Sir William Fraser. It was sold in 1868 and renamed the New Inn, before being de-licensed in 1971 and divided into two houses, of which this is one.