12 and 12a, Church Street

Nos. 12 and 12A Church Street are shops and offices built between 1836 and 1839, with 20th-century alterations and shopfronts. They feature orange grey mottled brick in Flemish bond and have moulded timber cornices, with slate roofs that are hipped over a corner bay and include brick stacks. The buildings have two fronts on a corner site.

The Church Street front has three storeys and a mezzanine, with six bays, one of which is canted at the corner. The King's Square front continues from the Church Street side and has four storeys with four bays. The shopfront for No. 12, which is accessed from King's Square, wraps around the corner and includes a six-panel door for the upper level. The shopfront for No. 12A features a part-glazed door situated between plate glass windows above beaded panel risers.

The mezzanine floor has a lunette window set in a moulded semicircular arch above No. 12A, while the other windows are squat six-pane fixed lights, some of which have been altered to two- or three-light small-pane casements. The first and second floors are adorned with twelve-pane sash windows that have slender glazing bars, with the first-floor windows being taller. There is one inserted casement on the first floor and one blocked window at the left end of the second floor. All windows have narrow painted sills and flat arches.

The rebated corner bay features a two-light casement window at the mezzanine level, a two-by-five pane casement window in an enlarged opening on the first floor, and an unaltered window on the second floor. The windows on the King's Square bay remain unaltered. There is a moulded raised band above the mezzanine and a moulded eaves cornice supported by shaped brackets. The King's Square front includes a six-panel passage door at the left end of the shopfront. The first-floor windows are tall twelve-pane sashes with slender glazing bars, above a painted stone sill band. The second floor has two sixteen-pane sash windows, while the third floor has two squat eight-pane sashes, all with painted stone sills and flat arches. The eaves cornice is adorned with moulded modillions. The interior has not been inspected.