21 Castle Street

An early-C19 house, converted to a shop during the mid-C19 with the shop fronts removed and the façade restored in the late C20.

MATERIALS: stucco under a slate roof.

PLAN: the building has a dog-leg plan, with a double-pile fronting Castle Street and a longer rear range running south.

EXTERIOR: the principal elevation is of three storeys plus basement across three bays. The stucco to the ground floor is banded and divided by a plat band from the two upper floors, which are smooth rendered. The main entrance is to the left side and has a six-panel door with a decorative fanlight over, recessed within a round-arched recess supported by moulded brackets. The two, round-headed window openings to the right side each have a round-arched, timber sash with glazing bars.

The first and second floors each have three, timber sash windows set within square-headed stucco architraves, those on the first floor being larger, with six-over-six glazing, and those on the second floor having smaller, three-over-three glazed panes. Between the first and second floor is a plat band, and above the second floor there is a projecting cornice, surmounted by lead-coped parapet. There are eight, late-C20 pattress plates arranged in two rows to the upper floors.

The west elevation of the rear range is blank, while the east elevation has a variety of timber sash and casement windows to all floors. There is a door at the basement level of the south elevation, a full-height casement window and smaller, two-pane, timber sash window on the ground floor, and a tripartite timber sash window on the first and second floors.

The front range has an M-shaped roof with partially infilled roof valleys and the rear, south range has a hipped roof with brick chimney stack.