12, Higher Street

No. 12 Higher Street is a house over a shop built in 1904, as indicated by a date plaque on the adjoining No. 3 Hornhill, which incorporates an older sidewall that is likely medieval. The building features mixed construction, with a stone rubble left side wall that was once a party wall, while the rest is slate-hung timber-framing. It has no stack and a slate roof.

The layout consists of a one-room plan house with a ground-floor shop and an entrance to the house on the right side, leading into an entrance hall with a staircase in the right rear corner. The exterior is three storeys high with a cellar. The ground floor is finished in stucco, which is lightly blocked out to resemble ashlar. The original early 20th-century timber shop front is relatively plain, featuring a canted right corner with contemporary bottom-panelled glazed double doors beneath a plain overlight. The right return has a shop window with glazing bars and a house doorway at the rear that contains a glazed two-panel door under a plain overlight. The front and right return are slate-hung, with each upper floor featuring single horned four-pane sash windows. The front gable has plain bargeboards and a terracotta finial, and the roof is hipped to the rear. The interior retains plain original details.