12 And 13 Oliver Place And 1 Croft Road

Dated 1875. 2-storey and attic corner block comprising shop and public house at ground floor and tenement above: 3 bays to North Bridge Street; slightly recessed, bowed bay to corner containing pub entrance flanked by columns; 2 bays to Croft Road; adjoining, slightly recessed, 3-bay block at No 1 Croft Road forming part of terrace. Painted ashlar at ground floor of principal block; tooled, squared, coursed yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings to street elevations elsewhere; render to S gable; roughly squared, snecked, tooled yellow sandstone to rear with polished ashlar dressings. Raised margins. Platform roof.

12 AND 13 OLIVER PLACE: Base course; panelled stall risers; 1st-floor cill course; continuous 1st-floor hoodmoulds; eaves course linking margins of 2nd-floor windows; modillioned cornice; blocking course linking dormers. Quoin strips. Regular fenestration with stop-chamfered, roll-moulded, shouldered-arched margins at ground and 1st floors, basket-arched margins and bracketed cills at 2nd floor, and rectangular margins and projecting cills to rear. Recessed, 2-leaf, 6-panel timber door with rectangular fanlight to corner, with flanking, octagonal-based, shallow-foliate-capitalled, engaged columns; date stone to gabled dormer above; central 2-leaf, timber-panelled tenement door with fanlight and consoled canopy to Oliver Place, flanked by shoulder-arched shop and pub windows; shop door to outer left; 2 blind and 2 glazed ground-floor openings to Croft Road.

1 CROFT ROAD: Slightly recessed central door in plain, corniced architrave; 3 gabled dormers. Base course; moulded eaves course. Regular fenestration, with slightly raised margins and bracketed cills.

Plate glass at ground floor; 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows at 1st floor of Nos 12 and 13 Oliver Place and throughout upper floors of No 1 Croft Road block. Grey slate roof with metal ridges. Ashlar-coped skews. Corniced ashlar stacks with some octagonal buff clay cans.

INTERIOR: Mirrored gantry, decorative cornices and ceiling rose to pub. Stone tenement stair from ground to 1st floor, timber stair to upper floors, with decorative cast-iron balustrade and polished timber handrail; stone stair to basement; predominantly 4-panel timber doors and some working timber window shutters to flats.