27 And 29, Princes Street

27 and 29 Princes Street are late 17th-century houses that have been converted into shops. They are built of brick with Ham Stone dressings and feature a stone slate roof with coped gables. The buildings are two stories tall and have five bays. The ground floor has modern shopfronts set in flat arched recesses made of stone ashlar, which is topped by a stone band course. The first floor has five regularly spaced 12-pane windows, each framed in stone architraves with keystones. There are rusticated stone quoins at the first floor and a stone eaves cornice. The interior and rear elevation have not been seen. These properties are connected to Nos 23 and 25, sharing the same roof and eaves cornice. However, the different facing material at the first floor level indicates that this house has been re-fronted multiple times, and the windows are deeper than those of the adjacent building. The re-fronting was done by John Old, a mercer, in 1714, and the buildings were later home to John Old Goodford and Thomas Cave, a brewer.