12, Barton Street

No. 12 Barton Street is a house with a shop, dating from the mid or late 18th century, but built on 17th-century foundations. The front features Flemish bond brickwork, while the rear wing is timber-framed with plaster or brick panels and has a tiled roof. The building has a distinctive façade with a high blocking course that hides the steep-pitched transverse roof of the 17th-century parallel plan, which includes a hipped rear extension and a long 17th-century rear wing accessed from the adjacent alley under Nos 13 and 14. It stands three storeys tall with an attic and has two windows. The windows are six-pane sashes set beneath painted voussoirs and on stone cills. Below, there is a 19th-century pilaster shop front with a 20th-century window, topped by a deep fascia with a cornice. To the right, there is a 20th-century glazed door. A rendered string course runs above the first floor, and a brick string course is above the second floor, leading up to a very high parapet with coping. The interior has not been inspected.