Darwen House

House, one of a pair with No 14, each 3 storey, one bay with slate gabled roof and bracket eaves, rendered stack to left of No 12 and right of No 14. Painted lined stucco facades with second floor sash with marginal bars (replaced in uPVC on No 14), first floor canted timber oriel with horned sashes, cornice and metal tent roof (front sash with marginal panes remaining on No 12, glazing all uPVC on No 14) and ground floor shopfronts with overall fascia and dentilled cornice on 4 pilasters pointed long panels and corbelled bosses over, one pilaster each end and 2 framing door to No 14 which is central to whole building. The shopfront to No 12, to left of central door has 6-pane shopwindow to left and recessed half-glazed door with overlight to right, the overlight marked 'T. Harris, painter and glazier' in gilded Tuscan letters. No 14 has similar shopwindow to right of 3 panes and main doorway to left has uPVC door with overlight in panelled reveal. End wall of No 12 has overhanging verges, painted stucco with Darwen House in raised letters, and lean-to rear with projection to S onto Garden Lane, with S wall door and narrow E return with C20 window to first floor and built-out ground floor with 4-pane sash.