12 and 14 Drapers Lane

This building comprises a house and shop, dating from the early to mid-18th century, with alterations made in the late 19th century, including a new shopfront and windows. The building is rendered externally and has a timber and glass shopfront on the ground floor facing Drapers Lane. The roof is covered with composite tiles.

The building is almost square in plan, with a main frontage onto Drapers Lane (east) and a side elevation onto Cordwainers Lane (north). It is three storeys high plus a cellar, spanning two wide bays on both frontages, and is topped by a hipped roof.

The principal, east elevation presents a symmetrical appearance, with an elaborate late-19th century shopfront featuring Classical details. A canted entrance has a panelled, half-glazed door. Either side of the entrance are a moulded stone plinth and low, moulded timber stallrisers, intersected by cast iron cellar grilles with slender mullions framing large plate-glass shop windows. Above the shop windows, a fascia board has egg and dart mouldings to the cornice and architrave, finished with elaborate console brackets rising from panelled pilasters that frame the shopfront. The shopfront extends slightly onto the north elevation.

The first and second floors each feature a pair of late-19th century sash windows with two-over-two glazing within moulded timber surrounds that project from the stuccoed facade. A modern fascia board and guttering sit above the second-floor windows.

The north elevation fronting Cordwainers Lane has a two-over-two glazed, timber sash window with horns and a moulded timber surround on both the first and second floors, above the shopfront return. Further west on the ground floor are a 19th-century plank door, a 20th-century four-panelled door with a barred overlight, and a shop window blocked with timber planks, all unified by a timber fascia board. Above this arrangement is a large timber sash window with ten-over-ten glazing within a moulded timber surround on the first floor, and a two-over-two sash window, possibly uPVC, on the second floor.