St. George's Square: No 12 - 20 Warehouse

Mid C19. A single composition with Nos 8 and 10 Railway Street, which is, in toto, as follows. Ashlar. Hipped slate roof. 4 storeys and basement. Deeply moulded modillion eaves cornice. Continuous moulded sill bands to 2nd and 3rd floors. Plain band above ground floor. Continuous moulded impost band to ground floor windows, below which ground floor is horizontally rusticated. Moulded plinth. Vermiculated and rusticated quoins. 12 ranges of sashes. Ground floor windows round-arched with vermiculated keystones. 1st floor windows have moulded surrounds, gadrooned keystones, frames with pulvinated friezes and triangular pediments, and balustrades on consoles with vase-shaped balusters. Above pediments 2 triglyph-like consoles link them to the cills of the 2nd floor windows: these have moulded surrounds and cornices. 3rd floor windows are separated by sunk and moulded panels, have plain pilasters and brackets to cornices. Cast iron railings to areas, with baluster finials. St George's Street elevation is a simplified version of the former, with 12 window ranges, one of which is blind.

[Extract from the Historic England web site, list entry number 1232139]

Architect Sir William Tite, Architectural advisor to the Ramsden Estate.