Blenheim Terrace, 97-105 Castle Street

A terrace of five houses built in the late 18th or early 19th century, located on Castle Street. The houses are constructed of red brick with a Bath Stone façade facing Castle Hill, slate and iron railings to the front, and feature three storeys plus a basement.

The terrace presents five identical houses, each two bays wide, with numbers 97 and 105 projecting slightly forward. The front (north) elevation is entirely of Bath Stone. Access is via a raised walkway set back from the pavement. Each house has a front door approached by steps contained by dwarf walls that bridge the basement light wells. Red brick walls support the right side of each dwarf wall, and the dwarf walls are surmounted by an iron balustrade, with a flat handrail on the left and spearhead railings on the right. A separate gated entrance, defined by a coped brick wall and decorative railings, serves the basements.

The ground floor of each property has two round-arched recesses. The eastern recess contains a round-arched sash window, and the western recess houses a three-panelled door with a fanlight featuring a decorative batwing glazing bar pattern. Most of the front windows appear original. An impost moulding runs between the round-arched openings above the door heads, and a simple plat band runs between the ground and first floors.

The first floor contains two six-over-six sash windows, and the second floor has two three-over-three sash windows. A plat band runs between these floors, with the suggestion of a further band above the second-floor windows, indicated by two scored lines in the Bath Stone. The parapet has a small square cornice concealing a hipped slate roof.

The eastern, western, and rear (southern) elevations are of red brickwork. The ground and first floors of the western elevation appear rendered, with the first-floor plat band continuing onto this façade in render. The rear elevation has a regular pattern of timber sash windows (six-over-six on the ground and first floors, and two-over-two on the second floor) with stone cills. Doorways to numbers 97 and 101 are accessed via bridges over a continuous basement area. A small lean-to extension is present to the rear of number 105.