Former Castle Inn

SP 90 NE MILL STREET and Castle Street (West side) 7/109 Former Castle Inn II

Former Inn. C1840, with later C19 addition. Yellow stock brick in Flemish bond, addition with rendered ground floor and plum-coloured brick to rear. Welsh slate roofs. 2 storeys, 3 x 2 bays, lower addition of 2 storeys with basement and 2 bays, the corner bay canted at front. Main range: symmetrical elevation. Stuccoed plinth. Central door, in stuccoed architrave, having glazed upper half over 2 panels and overlight with 6 round-ended panels; flanking 12-pane sashes (left one horned, right one boarded up) in reveals and with stuccoed, keyed, lintels. 1st floor: round-arched sign recess with keyed architrave flanked by full-height unhorned 12-pane sashes with stuccoed, keyed, lintels. The windows give access to balcony which has stone pavement supported by 4 slender iron columns (one fallen and one replaced) with moulded bases and caps; decorative cast-iron balusters to railing. Oversailing hipped roof; stacks removed. Addition: ground floor has recessed panels with dripmoulds, and cornice; narrow right bay has a 4-pane sash to each floor. Rear: main range has 2 segmental-arched windows to ground floor and one above, to right, all with unhorned 12-pane sashes (that on left removed); small gabled addition not of special interest. Addition has round-arched basement openings, a 4-pane sash to ground floor left, and a former 2-pane sash over; C20 pent-roofed addition on right not of special interest. Right return (main range): windows have gauged bright-yellow brick arches, those on ground floor boarded up, those on 1st floor with 12-pane sashes. Interior not inspected. Unoccupied and in state of disrepair at time of inspection.

Listing NGR: SP9946908051