12, Princess Street

12 Princess Street is a building from the latter part of the 18th century, featuring three storeys and a basement with a broad red brick front. It has bands between the storeys and a bracketed eaves cornice at the gable end, topped with an old pantile roof. The façade includes five windows with flush architrave framed sashes; the ground floor windows do not have glazing bars and are topped with flat stone arches that have keystones. The central door consists of six fielded panels and has a semi-circular fanlight above it. The door is framed by an architrave with reeded console brackets supporting a pediment hood, and the panelled soffit features roundel ornamentation in the panels. Access to the door is via a flight of five steps, which are adorned with early 19th-century anthemion head rails that return to the area. Inside, there is an open tread staircase with shaped brackets, slender bannisters with clustered shafts, and a swept rail, which is boxed in up to the first floor. This building is part of a cohesive group of listed buildings on the north side of Princess Street, from Nos 2 to 30.