12-16, BOLD STREET

Nos. 12 to 16 Bold Street are early 19th-century shops with a mid-19th-century shop front. The building is iron-framed, featuring four storeys for Nos. 14 and 16, and three storeys for No. 12. The design includes two tall storeys of glass panels set between slender iron struts, known as colonnettes, which have capitals. There is a crested canopy above the ground floor shop fronts, and a dentilled cornice above the first floor, supported by columns with Ionic capitals and adorned with ornamented balustrading. The upper portion of the building is stuccoed. No. 12 features a cornice and pediment over a segmental arch of the original first-floor window, with a four-light window above that has colonnettes. The parapet has been altered. Nos. 14 and 16 have end bays that project forward, with windows framed in architraves; the central windows are tripartite, and the second floor features a segmental pediment. The building is topped with a modillioned eaves cornice.