29, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information)

This is an earlier 17th-century merchant’s house, originally of a “deux corps de batiments” design. It was remodelled in the mid-19th century, but retains a small courtyard, now roofed over, and a separate kitchen block. The building is three storeys high, with a one-window facade and a one-window return to the Butterwalk. It has a hipped roof covered in Welsh slate. The first and second floors are timber-framed and slate-hung, with a coved eaves cornice. It features architraved sash windows with side lights. A ground-floor loggia, supported by modern timber columns, extends over the pavement and forms the eastern end of the Butterwalk. A modern shopfront occupies the ground floor. The rear facade is gabled, with plastered and jettied frontages. Inside, an open 17th-century staircase remains, featuring a closed string, turned balusters, square newels with ball finials, and a moulded handrail. Reused early 17th-century panelling is in the attic, and a second-floor retains original muntin and plank partitions.