No. 12 Gold Tops

No. 12 Gold Tops is an exuberant building in the Tudor style, dating from the 1930s. It is a complex stuccoed structure of two storeys plus dormers, with raised quoins to the windows. The steep slate roofs feature bands of fishscale patterning. Elaborately carved bargeboards, of various patterns, adorn the building, including those on the dormers. Tall yellow brick chimneys stand on plinths, with diagonal shafts; the west front has two ridge chimneys to the taller middle section, the left side has six shafts, and the right side has two. The south front has a chimney to the ridge right of the porch; five shafts are present, while the east front has a three-shaft chimney to the right gable of the taller section, and a plain ridge stack to the lower section. Windows are generally small-paned sashes with centre mullions. The south front features an advanced gable to the right, belonging to No. 12. A canted bay window is present above a sash window, with an attic roundel containing a quatrefoil. The three left bays form the entrance front of No. 11. This section features a two-storey gabled porch to the centre, with a four-centred doorway, a moulded surround, a hoodmould, and a datestone above the door, with a sash window above. A canted bay window is visible to the left on the ground floor, with battlements, large-paned sashes, and a sash window above with a steep dormer gable. To the right of the porch, sashes are positioned to both the ground and first floors, the latter breaking the eaves with a gabled dormer above, and a small-paned sash. The west elevation (for No. 11) divides into three sections. The right bay is gabled with sash windows on both floors, and a small attic sash above. The centre bay has a higher roofline and a two-storey ashlar bay window with crenellations, featuring three-light mullioned windows with sashes. The left section, remodelled as office premises, is lower with a gable facing Fields Road narrowed to the centre, displaying a mullioned window over an open porch.

The east front (for No. 12) is at a right angle to Fields Road and consists of two sections. The three-bay left part is taller, with a single-storey, deeply gabled porch to the centre, featuring a pointed door facing south and a gable above it. A canted bay window is located to the right. Sashes are positioned on the first floor, with the centre window featuring a dormer gable. Steeply gabled attic dormers are on each side, sharing the main ridge-line. The three-bay section to the right is slightly lower, with sashes on the ground floor, and a large-paned canted bay window on the first floor, set at an angle with the taller block. The north elevation comprises the two gable ends of each house, with a narrow service court between, enclosed by a rubble wall with an arched doorway. The interior of the building was not inspected at the time of the survey in May 1999.