Castleton House, 123 Castle Hill

A house, built between the 1840s and 1860s, now flats. Formerly Castle Street, now Castle Hill.

MATERIALS AND PLAN: the principal elevation is of red brick and stucco. The roof covering is slate. Three storeys and basement.

EXTERIOR: the Castle Hill elevation is smooth rendered at basement level and has channelled rustication at ground-floor level. The brickwork is exposed on the first and second floors. The partly-exposed eastern elevation is smooth rendered. A plat band runs across the façade at first-floor sill level and continues round onto the eastern elevation. The six-panel door with simple modern rectangular fanlight and stucco cornice is accessed via a short flight of steps with an historic iron handrail. To the left of the doorway, the ground floor and basement each contain two windows, with eight-over-eight sashes at basement level and margin-glazed sashes with rusticated stucco window heads on the ground floor. The first floor contains three, six-over-six sash windows within entablatured stucco architraves. The second floor has two, three-over-six sash windows. The central second-floor window surround survives although the window has been replaced with a louvred air vent. The eastern elevation contains two sash windows, one on the first floor almost completely hidden by 121 Castle Hill and a small two-over-two sash window on the second floor. The eastern gable is punctuated by two tall brick stacks: one, of four flues sitting flush with the gable wall and the other of ten flues. There is a third chimney stacks on the rear pitch of the west gable, abutting the neighbouring property at 125 Castle Hill.