12, Cheap Street

12 Cheap Street is a building that dates from the late 18th century and mid 19th century. The front has a three-storey section and a two-storey section. The three-storey part is constructed in ashlar with chamfered quoins, a cornice, and a parapet. It features two windows with glazing bar sashes set in keyed openings. The two-storey section is made of painted ashlar, also with a cornice and parapet, and has two windows facing Cheap Street, which are also glazing bar sashes. The building has a splayed angle and a radiused return to King Street, where there are two barred sashes. Both sections have modern shop fronts. An extension added in the 1850s to the east is two storeys high, built in ashlar on a rusticated basement. It has chamfered quoins and a rounded angle, with a moulded band over the ground floor, a cornice, and a parapet. This extension has two windows on the ground floor and three on the first floor, with the rightmost being narrow. The first-floor windows have architraves, while the ground floor features panelled architraves with corner rosettes and aprons to the windows. The basement has keyed segmental headed openings.