12 And 14, Park Street

A house, now offices, and an attached wing, likely originally two cottages, dates from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, with later additions and alterations, and the cottages probably from the late 18th century.

The main range (number 12) is constructed of coursed squared limestone, has a stone slate roof, a rebuilt stone stack at the right end, and a stone left-end stack with a brick upper portion. Number 14, to the left, is built of coursed limestone rubble with a Welsh slate roof and a brick left-end stack. The main range is two storeys with an attic and cellar, and has a five-window front. The first floor features five late 18th-century 6/6-pane sash windows set in moulded stone architraves with projecting keystones and moulded stone sills. Four similar windows are on the ground floor. A central six-panel door is deeply recessed within a stone architrave, which probably supported a cornice now lost, and features pilaster strips to either side and a fanlight above. Four two-light stone-mullion basement openings, with two vertical iron bars in each light, are positioned below the ground-floor windows. Three gabled dormers have moulded timber cornices and two-light casements with 20th-century leading. A moulded stone drip course runs above the ground floor, and a moulded timber eaves cornice tops the building.

The rear elevation includes two gabled wings and 19th and 20th-century additions. A three-light chamfered stone mullion-and-transom window is on the first floor of the left wing, and a similar window is in the right gable. Number 14 is two storeys with an attic and cellar, and has a two-window front. The first floor has a two-light timber glazing bar casement in a plain reveal with an exposed timber lintel and projecting cill to the right, and a 20th-century three-light timber glazing bar casement to the left in a similar reveal with a concrete lintel. The ground floor features a small 19th-century three-light shop window with timber mullions in a plain reveal with a concrete cill to the right, a 19th-century 2/2-pane horned sash window in a chamfered reveal in a former doorway, and a 20th-century three-light timber window to the left. A four-panel door with a single-pane overlight is set in a chamfered reveal to the centre. Two raking dormers have 20th-century three- and four-light timber casements. A shallow ashlar plinth with a cast-iron grille leads to the cellar on the left, and a 19th-century cast-iron footscraper is located to the right of the door.

The interior has been altered in the 20th century. A mid-18th-century closed string staircase has turned balusters. A late 18th-century moulded stone chimney-piece with applied decoration is in the ground floor right room, and an early 19th-century painted fire surround is in the first floor right room. The front range and two rear wings retain a late 17th/early 18th-century roof structure with curved principals in the front range. The interior of number 14 was not inspected.