Nos 13 And 12A And Warehouse Range To The Rear

This is a mid-to-late 18th century shop and a rear warehouse range, altered in the mid-to-late 19th century. The front building is constructed of painted Flemish-bond brick with Ham Hill stone dressings, topped with a slate roof and brick stacks. It is two storeys high, originally with a five-window front, and appears to have been originally symmetrical on the left side before a third window was added to the right. The two sections of the front building project slightly and are divided by painted stone pilasters with simple stepped mouldings at the top and stepped brickwork creating two horizontal bands below an unpainted cornice. Number 12A, on the left, has a six-panel door with a semicircular overlight set within a stone arch, flanked on the left by a carriage entrance with a segmental arch and on the right by a 20th-century shop window. Ornamental cast-iron bars are visible in the basement below the shop window. The first floor has early 19th-century bay windows, flat to the front and curved to the sides, with three vertical glazing bars to each sash, the outer panes being quadrant-curved. Stone brackets support the sills, and moulded cornices are flanked by ornamental brackets. Number 13, to the right, has two eight-pane sashes on the first floor and a late 19th-century bow window under a wooden lintel supported by a single bracket to the left. A double shop front, likely dating to the late 19th century, features segmental arches over plate-glass windows with glazing bars to the top lights, and a window, originally probably a door, is located to the left. A large rubble stone wing to the rear now forms part of the shop. The ground floor interior has been altered, combining the front shop and rear wing into a single space; the rest of the interior remains uninspected but is thought to be of interest.