12, 13 AND 14, NEW KING STREET

This is a group of three terrace houses at numbers 12, 13, and 14 New King Street. They were built between 1764 and 1770, with alterations in the 19th century. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar, with slate roofs. They are generously sized town houses, each with a double mansard roof and an entrance with a staircase to one side.

The houses are three storeys with an attic and basement, each having a single bay. The windows are mainly plain sash windows with horizontal bars. Nos 12 and 13 have two small dormers each. Windows at the second and first floors are tripartite, set in a splayed surround, with a "floating" cornice at the first floor. They have paired sashes at ground floor level, above a paired four-pane window to the basement. No. 12 has a five-panel door in an architrave with a flat hood supported by pilasters with consoles. No. 13 has a six-panel door in a doorcase with solid cheeks, an impost band, and a hood. No. 14 is similar, but with a raised plat surround to the first and second floor windows, and a six-panel door with a decorative fanlight in a doorcase.

The exteriors include a plinth, a platband above the first floor, a modillion cornice (interrupted between Nos 13 and 14), a blocking course, and a parapet. Straight joints are visible at the ends of the terrace and between the buildings at numbers 13 and 14. Coped party walls divide the buildings, and large shared stacks are present at numbers 11/12 and in No. 14. A lead downpipe runs down the centre of numbers 12 and 13. The terrace is slightly higher than the adjoining numbers 10 and 11, and the mansard roof has a higher profile. The rear of No. 12 features tripartite glazing bar sashes at each level. No. 13 has a full-height canted bay with single four-pane windows above twelve-pane windows on each facet. No. 14 has a plain tripartite sash window. Moulded strings run the full width at each floor, but are stopped in the central bay.

The interiors of numbers 12 and 13 have very fine cornicing. The external fabric shows a staggered building history, with the terrace built in small sections, evidenced by the straight joints.