12, Trim Street

This is a late 18th or early 19th century house in a row, originally including a shop component. It is located on Trim Street, laid out in 1707 just outside the medieval city walls. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar on the front, with rubble to the rear, and has a roof with a deep, plain ridge and low pitch. It has three storeys and a basement.

The front elevation features a single window. The second floor has a two-light casement window with small panes, and the first floor has a sixteen-pane sash window, both set in plain reveals. A late 20th-century recessed shopfront occupies the ground floor, featuring bowed display windows with small panes and a central door, adorned with decorative transom lights. To the left of the doorway is a six-panel door set on a single step with a raised surround. A platband remains above the ground floor, and a cornice with a blocking course extends to a parapet, with a stack to the right.

The rear of the building features an ashlar cornice and parapet above rubble, incorporating dressed quoins and arranged in two bays with staggered eight-pane sashes. A ground floor extension has been added to the rear, and there is an access point from a small graveyard adjacent to a medieval city wall.

The interior has not been inspected. The street retains its original flagged pavements and set roadway.