12, High Street

No. 12 High Street is a mid-18th century house that has been converted into offices. It is built of red brick with burnt headers and features a 20th-century clay tiled mansard roof. The building has a rectangular plan, with 19th and 20th-century additions at the rear and east end, which are not of special interest and are not included in this listing.

The exterior is two storeys high with an attic and has stacks at both the east and west ends. The north elevation has five bays, with a central door flanked by a pair of relatively narrow windows above. All these elements are plain 19th-century features with horns. There are four windows on the ground floor and six on the first floor, topped by a parapet with a cyma moulded cornice. The central doorway is framed by a flat-headed Doric porch with reeded and panelled reveals. The door is two-leaved, each leaf having three panels, and is topped by a semicircular fanlight with radial glazing bars, all dating from the early 19th century. The ground-floor windows are adorned with individual 18th-century iron guard rails, each decorated with central rosettes and curls at the top and bottom.

At the east end, there is a 19th-century flat-headed porch that projects outwards, with a doorway on the north front featuring a similar fanlight to the central porch. The roof has three segment-headed dormers behind the parapet, with sashes that match the other windows on the elevation. The south elevation is largely obscured by later additions but includes one segment-headed window on the first floor with glazing bars and three flat-headed dormers, each with three lights, one of which is now a door. The east end elevation has a 19th-century ground floor extension that was further extended in the 20th century to cover three-quarters of the house's depth, featuring four segment-headed windows, two on the ground floor and two on the first floor, all with glazing bars and three-by-four panes. The west end elevation is now much obscured. A 20th-century railing set on a dwarf wall protects the front of the building. The interior has no exposed features.