5-8, Castle Street

The building at 5-8 Castle Street dates from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of plum-coloured brick with red brick dressings and a Welsh slate roof. The two-storey building features a brick and bracketed cornice and five first-floor Doric pilasters. It has sash windows with glazing bars, some with louvred shutters; the ground floor windows have keystones. An elliptically arched carriageway is located on the right side, leading to a pair of twelve-panelled doors. To the left is an earlier 19th-century shop window with glazing bars, slender pilasters, a frieze and cornice that extends over the door, and an oblong fanlight set within a panelled reveal surrounded by reeded pilasters. Numbers 5, 6, and 7 have similar doorways with a segmental curve to the pilasters. In the centre and on the left, elliptically arched passage entries are marked by imposts and keystones. Numbers 1 to 9, along with 11, 12, and 12A, form a visually cohesive group.