9, Castle Street

No. 9 Castle Street is a house and shops that originated as a domestic range in the early 16th century and was converted in the 19th century into a house with two shops. The building features a rendered and colourwashed timber frame and has a roof made of black-glazed pantiles.

The exterior is two storeys high with a four-window range. On the right side of the elevation, there is a shop front from around 1830, which includes pilasters with a Greek key frieze and 20th-century plate glass. Next to it is a panelled door and a plate-glass display window. Following this is a late 19th-century shop display window, and the façade ends with a three-over-three horned sash window. The first floor has three 2-light casements and an 8-over-8 unhorned sash window on the right. The gabled roof has two ridge stacks. At the rear, there is a two-storey early 19th-century outshut and an 18th-century two-storey cross wing to the north.

Inside, the frame has moderate scantling, with chamfered bridging beams and joists throughout. There is an early 19th-century stick-baluster staircase with turned newels, which was moved further north in the late 20th century from its original site, and features a ramped handrail. The centre room includes an 18th-century inglenook fireplace with a full-width brick canopy. A five-light diamond mullioned window in the original rear wall has rebates for sliding shutters, indicating that the original 16th-century house was one room deep. The wall plate shows face-halved scarf joints, and there are arched and tension braces to the tie beams beneath the clasped purlin roof.