29, Castlegate

This is a house, later used as a gallery, dating from the 1840s, that was renovated in 1991. The front is built of orange-brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern, set upon a painted moulded stone plinth. It features a timber doorcase and a moulded eaves cornice with small mutules. The roof is slate, with stone coping, brick kneelers, and stacks, and a roof valley on the right return that is hidden behind a flat parapet.

The building has a two-story, four-bay front onto Castlegate, with an entrance in the right return. All windows are 12-pane sash windows with slender glazing bars, painted stone sills, and flat arches formed with gauged brick. The right return has a central doorcase featuring sunk panelled pilasters, a Doric entablature hood, and panelled reveals. It contains a recessed six-panel door with an overlight, approached by steps. A 12-pane window is located centrally on the first floor. To the left is a fluted rainwater head.

Inside, the entrance hall has an enriched dentilled cornice, and an Ionic arch of fluted columns and entablature leads to the stairhall. Both halls have floors of encaustic tiles, and all doorcases are reeded with angle roundels. The open-string winder staircase has shaped treadends, slender bobbin balusters, and a moulded serpentine handrail, wreathed at the foot around a turned newel. Rooms to the left have moulded skirtings and cornices, one featuring floral paterae and one with foliar paterae. Window and doorcases are reeded with angle roundels, and windows have panelled shutters and reveals. Both rooms contain marble chimneypieces; one has a curvilinear mantelshelf and a cast-iron fire surround with chrysanthemum tiles, while the other has a plain mantelshelf on heavy moulded brackets.

On the first floor, the landing has a moulded ceiling cornice and a radial-glazed circular lantern rising from a moulded surround, which illuminates the stairwell. Both main rooms on this floor have moulded skirtings and cornices. Window and doorcases are plain, except for an interconnecting door featuring a reeded architrave with angle roundels, panelled reveals, and folding panelled doors. One room has a moulded chimneypiece with angle roundels and a moulded mantelshelf.