12, BUCKINGHAM STREET (See details for further address information)

No 12 Buckingham Street is a house and shops with late medieval origins, remodelled in the late 16th century to early 17th century, and features an early 19th-century extension facing Buckingham Street at the rear. The elevation to Kingsbury was refronted in the mid-19th century. The building has a right-angle plan and is timber-framed, with a rendered front to Buckingham Street and a brick front to Kingsbury.

The Kingsbury elevation is three storeys high with a two-window range, showcasing a mid to late 19th-century shop front that includes a bracketed cornice above a 20th-century door and window. It has flat brick arches over horned four-pane sash windows and a parapet. The Buckingham Street front is gabled, two storeys tall, and has a two-window range. It features a 20th-century plate-glass shop window set in an early to mid-19th-century architrave, along with a 20th-century door. The first floor includes Gothic-style ogee-headed glazing bar windows and a central plank door, with later 19th-century bargeboards.

Inside, there is a late 16th-century to early 17th-century chamfered beam and a mid-19th-century oven range in the cellar. The exposed timber frame shows straight wall bracing, with three bays of framing. The rear two bays likely date from the late medieval period and were heightened in the late 16th to early 17th century. The left-hand wall of the front bay retains late medieval framing. The building features a chamfered beam at the front and a stopped hollow-chamfered beam at the rear, along with curved bracing to the tie beams and clasped purlin trusses with curved wind bracing. A mid-19th-century staircase is present, and in the rear room on the ground floor, there are two early 19th-century cupboards with debased Greek Key ornament, as well as two 17th-century plank doors leading to the first floor. The early 19th-century extension facing Buckingham Street has its own trusses.