12, Hanover Street

No. 12 Hanover Street is an office and warehouse building constructed after 1888. It features a red brick exterior and a slate roof, standing four storeys tall with a basement and twelve bays facing Duke Street, Hanover Street, and Paradise Street. The ground floor includes round-arched openings, sloping basement windows, and a window with coved bases, while the spandrels display a brick herring-bone pattern. The entrance, located in the eighth bay, has a small-paned fanlight above a 20th-century door. There is a segmental-headed cart entrance in the third bay. On the first floor, tripartite windows with colonnettes are present, and the entrance bay features a two-storey canted oriel with four-light windows. An iron balcony supported by large brackets is found on the second floor, which also has three-light windows with round relieving arches above. A bracketed sill course runs on brackets, and the top of the building is adorned with a Lombard frieze and balustrading situated between tall chimneys. The last bay is a recessed loading bay with a gable and pinnacles, along with iron guard rails. The facade facing Duke Street Lane is more utilitarian, consisting of seven bays.