12, Queen Street

12 Queen Street is a late 18th-century house that now serves as an annex to a girls' grammar school. It has been altered in the late 19th century. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar in narrow courses and features a hipped slate roof. The symmetrical facade consists of two storeys above cellars and two bays, with raised quoins, a cornice, and a parapet with coping. The windows are now sashed and have tripartite stone surrounds with Tuscan pilaster jambs and engaged baseless Tuscan columns as mullions. Below the windows are tripartite cellar openings with plain stone surrounds, although the left-hand opening is blocked. The entrance is through a narrow single-storey addition on the right, which has a door architrave with a bracketed cornice and a cornice with a blocking course above; this addition appears to be of late 19th-century date, with the original entrance located in the right-hand return wall. There are chimneys on both the left and right sides. Inside, there is a stair hall to the left featuring an arched entrance with fluted pilasters. The dogleg stair includes a ramped mahogany handrail, an open string, stick balusters, and a fluted square lower newel.