10 And 12, Dollar Street

The building at 10 and 12 Dollar Street is a house, later used as offices, dating from the late 17th century and early/mid-18th century, with later alterations. The front is rendered with stucco, while the sides and rear are built from coursed squared limestone rubble. The roof is covered with artificial slate, and there are rebuilt brick chimney stacks at the left and right ends.

The building is two storeys and an attic, with a five-window front. The first floor has five 9/9-pane sash windows with crown glass, set within moulded architraves with projecting sills. The ground floor has a late 19th-century shopfront with three windows divided by vertical moulded glazing bars. There are 20th-century glazed doors with overlights. Elaborately carved console brackets support a moulded cornice over a fascia, with three moulded pilasters flanking the centre. To the right of the ground floor is a pair of five-panel doors in a moulded architrave, and a 4/4-pane sash window in a similar architrave as the first-floor windows. There are two gabled dormers with 19th-century two-light timber casements. A moulded timber eaves cornice runs along the top.

A wing of coursed squared limestone rubble to the rear left has a single 4-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion and transom window to both the ground and first floors, with some leaded lights on the first floor. A stuccoed wing to the rear right and the rear of the main range features a timber arcade on the ground floor, now filled in. The arcade originally comprised Doric columns without bases on padstones, likely full round but now incorporated into the wall, supporting a simple frieze and cornice.

At the left side return of the rear wing, the angle between the columns and frieze is filled with shaped boards, extending under the frieze towards the centre of the bay, and terminated by square section pointed pendants. A similar pendant is visible inside the rear hall of the main range. Some of the timber from the arcade has been renewed.

The interior features an early 18th-century staircase leading from the ground floor to the second floor. The staircase has two turned balusters per tread, shaped tread-ends, a ridged and corniced handrail ramped up to the landings, and responding dado panelling. The ground floor front left and staircase hall have boxed-out beams with a run moulding, while the first and second-floor landings over the staircase have chamfered beams with run-out stops and broad notches. The roof is a trenched purlin roof.