12 and 12a, Cricklade Street

12 and 12A Cricklade Street is a building society office with a flat above, dating from the early to mid-18th century, with a mid-19th century wing added to the rear and later alterations. The building is constructed of coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings and features a stone slate roof with a coped verge on the right side. The right-end stack has been rebuilt in ashlar. The rear wing is made of coursed squared limestone rubble and has a Welsh slate roof, with a rebuilt brick lateral stack on the left gable.

The main range is set back from Cricklade Street and consists of two storeys and an attic, with a three-window range. The first floor has three 6/6-pane late 18th-century sash windows in flat beaded surrounds, complete with moulded stone cills, keyed lintels, and ashlar panels that extend upwards to a cornice. The ground floor features two similar windows in matching surrounds but without panels above. To the left, there is a door with six raised-and-fielded panels and a single-pane overlight, set in a beaded reveal with a keyed lintel, all within a broad segmental-headed arch that includes impost blocks and a keystone that is flush with the wall, possibly indicating a former carriage entrance.

The building has two gabled dormers with 20th-century two-light leaded casements. Notable architectural details include a deep chamfered plinth, a band course over the ground floor that steps down to the right, and rusticated quoins on the first floor at both ends. The eaves cornice is moulded, with lower mouldings that break forward over the panels above the first-floor windows. The entrance is now accessed via a 19th or 20th-century Doric porch with a broken pediment at the right corner. The 19th-century rear wing is also two storeys and an attic, featuring a two-window range with 6/6-pane sashes in plain reveals and flat arch lintels. The interior has been partially inspected; the ground floor has been opened up and altered in the 20th century.