12 High Street

12 High Street is a Grade II* listed town house, now used as a solicitors' office. The building features painted stucco with imitation slates on the roof and brick chimneys at the ridge, which is positioned at the apparent break between the roofs on the left and right sides, along with a brick stack on the right end. It stands three storeys high and has a five-window range, with a central doorway flanked by two-window ranges on each side. The eaves are close with an eaves board, and there is a sill band on the first and second floors.

On the second floor, there are four square 6-pane hornless sash windows, while the other floors have hornless 12-pane sashes, with four windows on each floor. The ground floor windows on the right are spaced closer together due to an arched doorway that is not quite central, resulting in the right window being misaligned with the one above it. The entrance features a plain arched raised stuccoed surround to a recessed 6-panel flush-panelled door with a plain fanlight above. The left end wall is rendered and has no chimney.

The rear of the building shows two sections; the left half is continuous with number 14 and has a two-window range with hornless sashes. The attic features a 6-pane window above 12-pane windows on the first and ground floors, and there is a long range running north attached at the basement level. Each floor has long narrow stair-lights on the right. The right side of the building steps in with varied roofs and has a two-storey rear wing attached that runs north, with a stepped-down roofline.

Inside, the ground floor has six-panel doors. The rear staircase features scrolled tread ends, square balusters, and a continuous rail that is scrolled at the foot. A similar rail is present on the basement stair, but with turned column newels. To the left of the basement stair, there is a painted grained cast-iron 4-panel strong-room door leading to a strong room with two tall narrow chambers, each with plastered round vaults and seven tiers of slate shelves on each side, supported by brick piers for document storage. Beneath the front range, parallel to the street, is a long broad barrel-vaulted cellar divided into two rooms, featuring three well-formed arches to blocked openings to the street, which may have once served as coal chutes. The upper floors have not been inspected.