12 Prince Regent Street

This grand building was built in two parts, each with an engraved foundation date. The first which straddles Dovecot Street and Prince Regent Street built in 1863, then the second which was an extension of the first was built in 1877. Each floor has been highly decorated, with white-painted features. Mid to late 19th Century brick has been used in English Garden Wall with mortar bonding.

On the ground floor, around the fenestration, are protruding arches with mock keystone features, and the doors each have segmented heads resting on protruding columns of brick; the corner door having a decorative pilaster beneath each column head. The string between the ground and first floor is thick, protruding and adorning a mock bracket feature. The two floors above also have white-painted lintels and stringing of lesser, but varying decoration. Beneath the eaves is a brick cornice supporting steel guttering which runs around the line of the roof with the exception of the gable-end and corner face. This corner face in particular begins on the ground floor with a single entrance door, then a single window to the first and second floor, rising to a dormer with a bullet-hole window/vent for the attic space. On the side facing Dovecot Street is a fire escape leading from a single entrance on the first and second floor, to its own double entrance into Prince Regent Street. The roof is gable and built of thin slate with a v-type ridge. Materials used: 19th Century brick on all floors interlaced with decorative stone features, maintained and painted white. The roof is made of thin slate, not original, but possibly early to mid 20th Century. 

On the ground floor, starting from the Dovecot Street side of the building is a double entrance leading to a fire escape. Between that and the corner single entrance is a double window; two distinctive arch-head windows separated only by a pilaster. On the Prince Regent Street front is three more double windows alternating between two sets of double doors ending in a single door on the far right. The first and second floor have identical floor-plans so they can be described in tandem. Starting on the Dovecot Street side again, is two sets of double windows separated by a middle single entrance leading onto the fire escape. The corner face has a single window leading round to the front which is then alternating double and single windows, ending in a single on the far right. The back is only partially visible, but all windows have been either boarded or bricked in, only cambered stone arch heads and sills remain, but it is possible to see two skylights in the attic space, facing the back of the property.