12, King Street

12 King Street is a small town house that likely dates back to the 17th century, although its front was altered in the early 19th century and it underwent comprehensive restoration in the 1970s. The building features brown brick in Flemish bond on the front and painted English garden wall bond on the rear, topped with a grey slate roof that is hipped at the front and has a ridge running at right angles to the street. It stands three storeys tall with one bay.

The front has a rendered plinth and two covered stone steps leading to a recessed door made up of six fielded panels, topped by a round-arched radial-bar fanlight. Fluted half-pilasters frame the door. On the first storey, there is a replaced four-pane recessed horned sash window, while the second storey features a similar 20-pane sash window that is five panes wide. The third storey has a 12-pane unequal sash window. A moulded cornice runs along the top, and there is a chimney on the west side.

At the rear, there is a six-panel door with a plain fanlight, a replaced nearly flush horned sash window with 16 panes on both the first and second storeys, and a casement window with three 2-pane lights on the third storey. The verge is flush.

Inside, the cellar has stone steps and mostly brick walls, with some sandstone at the lower level. The hall features an original plaster cornice and a round archway. The open-string staircase has shaped brackets, a curtail, and two stick balusters per step. The staircase leading to the third storey has square newels, a closed string, and stick balusters. An oak beam, likely from the 17th century, appears to have been the former west wallplate. The roof structure has been rebuilt.