12 And 13 Oliver Place And 1 Croft Road

Dated 1875, this building comprises a two-storey and attic corner block containing a shop and public house on the ground floor, and tenement flats above. It stands on the corner of North Bridge Street and Croft Road, with three bays facing North Bridge Street, a slightly recessed, bowed bay at the corner containing the pub entrance, and two bays facing Croft Road. An adjoining, slightly recessed three-bay block forms a terrace at No. 1 Croft Road.

The principal block is built with painted ashlar at ground floor, while the street elevations elsewhere are constructed from tooled, squared, and coursed yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. The south gable is rendered, and the rear is roughly squared, snecked, and tooled yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Raised margins run throughout the building, and it is topped with a platform roof.

At 12 and 13 Oliver Place, detailing includes a base course, panelled stall risers, a first-floor cill course, continuous first-floor hoodmoulds, an eaves course linking the margins of the second-floor windows, a modillioned cornice, and a blocking course linking the dormers. Quoin strips add definition. The fenestration is regular, with stop-chamfered, roll-moulded, and shouldered-arched margins at ground and first floors, basket-arched margins and bracketed cills at the second floor, and rectangular margins and projecting cills at the rear. The corner entrance features a recessed, two-leaf, six-panel timber door with a rectangular fanlight, flanked by octagonal-based, shallow-foliate-capitalled, engaged columns. A date stone is set into the gabled dormer above. A central, two-leaf, timber-panelled tenement door with a fanlight and consoled canopy is positioned on Oliver Place, flanked by shoulder-arched shop and pub windows; a shop door is located to the outer left. Two blind and two glazed ground-floor openings are present on Croft Road.

No. 1 Croft Road features a slightly recessed central door in a plain, corniced architrave, with three gabled dormers and a moulded eaves course. It also has a base course. The fenestration is regular, with slightly raised margins and bracketed cills.

Plate glass is used at ground floor level. Four-pane glazing is found in timber sash and case windows at the first floor of Nos. 12 and 13 Oliver Place, and throughout the upper floors of the No. 1 Croft Road block. The roof is covered with grey slate and metal ridges. Ashlar-coped skews, corniced ashlar stacks with octagonal buff clay cans, and a grey slate roof complete the external features.

The interior of the public house includes a mirrored gantry and decorative cornices and ceiling roses. A stone tenement stair provides access from the ground floor to the first floor, while a timber stair serves the upper floors, featuring a decorative cast-iron balustrade and polished timber handrail. A stone stair leads to the basement. Predominantly four-panel timber doors and some working timber window shutters are a feature of the flats.