23 Castle Street

Late-C18 to early-C19 house and shop.

MATERIALS: constructed of brick with a slate roof.

PLAN: the building has two bays and is rectangular on plan with its principal elevation facing north.

EXTERIOR: arranged over three storeys with painted brick in Flemish bond, the upper two storeys each have two 16-pane fixed casements. The windows sit beneath shallow stone segmental arches with keystones. There is a brick end stack to the right-hand side (west) and a dentilled cornice beneath the eaves. The shopfront on the ground floor is a late-C20 replacement with a wide fascia board. The pilasters to either side have been altered but are remnants of an earlier C19 shopfront.

INTERIOR: the ground floor shop has been modernised in the late-C20 and extends into the C20 extension to the rear. The upper storeys of the building have been altered with most fittings removed. A C19 cast-iron fireplace survives in the first-floor room. The newel-post closed-tread stair also dates to the C19 and has turned posts with plain balusters.