51 Castle Street

House, built between 1800 and 1830, ground-floor used as a commercial premise, and converted to office use by the mid-C20.

MATERIALS: the building is of red brick in Flemish bond with a rendered ground floor and a roof covering of slate.

PLAN: the building has a rectangular footprint extending south-east from Castle Street.

EXTERIOR: 51 Castle Street is of three storeys plus basement across two bays onto Castle Street, under a pitched roof. The western bay of the rendered and painted ground floor contains a six-panelled door with rectangular fanlight above and reeded casings. Immediately to the west is a tall, twelve-pane, fixed window with wooden glazing bars, with a reeded casing to the west matching those flanking the door. The eastern bay of the ground floor contains an eight-over-eight sash window. There are two, eight-over-eight sash windows each on the first and second floors, under gauged-brickwork heads, and a stone-coped parapet concealing the pitched roof. The chimney is located on the eastern half of the roof ridge. At the rear elevation, the basement level is rendered and painted white. There is a single-storey, brick extension with a hipped roof projecting along the western boundary of the property. There is a column of three, eight-over-eight sash windows in the eastern bay of the rear elevation, and two sash windows in the western bay located in-between the ground and first floors and first and second floors. The lower window is an eight-over-eight sash and the upper window is a six-over-six sash.