This building dates to the early or mid 19th century and forms part of a terrace of tall, three-storey buildings on the north side of Red Lion Street. Originally a house, 12 Red Lion Street was adapted in the later 19th century with the creation of a shop at ground floor level. It is built of buff-coloured brick and has a Welsh slate roof. The building is L-shaped on plan with an enlarged rear wing extending almost the full length of the rear garden. The building now (2011) houses a shop with residential accommodation above and within the rear two storey range. The building is of two bays, with a shop window and a glazed door with a plain rectangular overlight on the building frontage. Above the display fascia are two window openings with wedge lintels and undivided sash frames. There is a tall brick ridge chimney stack at the right-hand end of the roof. To the right of the shop front and its entrance recess is a separate entrance to the accommodation within the upper floors. This is flanked by 20th century pilasters and console brackets replicating the detailing of the shop fronts on either side. The building forms part of an overall street frontage of considerable visual variety and local interest but is of modest architectural interest and did not satisfy the criteria for statutory designation in 2011. {1}