Castle Hill House

Castle Hill House is a group of five houses, originally built as a small country house around 1800, with alterations and additions in the 19th century. The houses are constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, and have stone slate roofs and five stone chimney stacks. The east front has a slightly recessed central bay featuring two round-headed doorways, now filled with windows, and flanked by a pair of Doric columned porches. To the left is a square bay with plain sash windows, and to the right, a Venetian window with a central glazed door. Above the central tripartite sash window are two plain sashes on either side. The west, or street front, is irregular; numbers 215, 217, and 227 have plain sashes, and one house has an attached glazed entrance porch. Numbers 219 and 221, possibly a former lodge, have two 20th-century doors and two windows with ornate upper glazing, and three upper casements with similar ornate glazing bars. Attached garden walls are constructed of carved ashlar with curved coping and square piers. The entrance section has rusticated stone work with outer piers, concave walls, and inner piers. Inside, there is an early 19th-century stone staircase with ornate iron balusters, and a fireplace constructed from fragments of 17th-century wooden furniture. The author Michael Fairless (Margaret Fairless Barber) was born here in 1869.