12 to 16 Grey Street

Original building probably 1840s Dobson. Elevation remodelled in 1879 when the premises changed from shop and offices to the premises of Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society. Terracotta. Four storeys, four bays, the central ones projecting, and forming a second-and third-floor oriel. Large windows. Each floor has an enriched entablature supported on stepped-out corner pilasters, banded and fluted bay pilasters and the slender engaged columns framing the upper windows. Top entablature has ornamental frieze and balustraded parapet. First floor has balustraded balcony. Ground floor slightly obscured by signboard. LISTED GRADE 2