23, Castle Hill

This is a three-bay, three-story house with a cellar, dating to the late 18th century (before 1778), and altered in the late 19th century. It was later used as a stained glass studio and workshop and is now a restaurant. The front facade is sandstone ashlar, while the sides and rear are of coursed rubble. It has a slate roof with a coped gable on the right side and gable chimneys, the one on the right being on the roof slope. The building has a double-depth plan with a rear wing to the right.

The front features chamfered quoins. The ground floor has a waggon-shaped entrance with two panelled doors on the left. To the right are two large, late 19th-century rectangular windows with decorative wooden architraves. The windows have stained-glass panels in geometrical leading in the upper sections, with plain glass below, the left window being incomplete. The upper floors have 12-pane sash windows within plain raised surrounds. The heads of the top windows are incorporated into a plain frieze with remains of painted lettering reading ‘STAINED GLASS HERALDIC...’. The attic storey has a continuous studio window consisting of six casement lights, each with a boarded gablet above, and divided into six large square-leaded panes. There is similar glazing in the returns. The long rear wing features large doorways, which may have originally been windows, on the first and second floors, leading to a steel fire escape. The north side of the rear wing has a glazed timber-framed projection.

The building was formerly the premises of Messrs Shrigley and Hunt, a stained glass making firm, which developed from Shrigley and Son, founded in the late 18th century, and became Shrigley and Hunt in 1870. The firm relocated to West Road before closing in the 1970s.