29 Main Street

This is a three-storey terraced house with ground floor shops, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is built with painted stucco, features brick dentilled eaves, and has an imitation-slate roof with a small brick stack to the right. The front has three windows on each upper floor, with four-pane sash windows set within raised, shouldered architraves.

The ground floor openings are not aligned. On the left is a 20th-century glazed entrance to a shop, next to a fine, original bowed shop-window from the late 18th or early 19th century, featuring 28 panes within a casing of pilasters, a fascia, and a cornice. A door is positioned to the right of centre, within a doorcase featuring a moulded architrave, flanked by thin panelled strips under consoles, an architrave frieze, and a cornice. Finally, a large 20th-century bowed shop-window with 16 panes is set in a stucco surround. A 20th-century six-panel door with an overlight is positioned centrally, flanked by engraved stone plaques identifying "Robert George & Son Wine Merchants est 1796." A cellar iron hatch is located in the pavement.

A rear gabled southwest range extends south, incorporating modern windows, and a lower section to the north, with a hipped roof. A narrow rear wall to the right has some slate-hanging.

The main door provides access to both the house and the shop to the right. An attractive later 19th-century hardwood half-glazed four-panel door, with a turned column between arched panes and a tall overlight, leads into the house. The shop is divided into two rooms by a broad elliptical arch with reeded pilasters featuring small carvings of birds on the capitals and a reeded arch. Simple reeded cornices are present. A fielded panelled six-panel door leads into a central hall passage with thin ceiling moulding. A sunk-panelled six-panel door accesses the rear east room. The hall once featured an arch with an overlight.

The earlier 19th-century staircase has square balusters, bulbous, thin turned newels, scrolled tread ends, and a thin ramped rail. Doors on the first floor and in the attic are six-panelled, with sunk panels and matching panelled shutters. The front room on the west side of the first floor has a cornice with undercut leaf moulding and a scrolled ceiling border with rosettes, including a central acanthus rose within a roundel. A glazed cupboard stands in the position of a former door from the servants’ stair. The east front room, a dining room, has a moulded ceiling border and a chimneypiece, originally from the butler’s pantry, complete with a cast-iron grate. A cupboard with double doors is located to the right of the fireplace, and a niche is positioned to the left.

The shop on the left has an altered front room, with a room behind containing a fireplace at the south end and wall cupboards. The cellar has not been inspected.