107 Castle Hill

107 Castle Hill is an early 19th-century house, now converted to flats.

The building is constructed of stucco with stone dressings and a slate roof. It comprises three storeys and a basement, with a lower two-storey range plus basement to the west (adjoining 109 Castle Hill), and a two-storey stable wing to the east (adjoining 105 Castle Hill) set back from the main elevation.

The principal façade is a neoclassical villa design with a central element of three bays. The main house has a hipped roof while the subsidiary ranges have pitched roofs, all recessed behind parapets. The raised ground floor is embellished with channelled stucco and contains two round-arched sash windows with plate-glass panes on the central element and one on the west wing. A round-arched doorway is positioned off-centre in the westernmost bay of the main element, with a six-panelled partly glazed door and semi-circular fanlight above, accessed by a flight of painted stone steps with iron handrails. A plat band runs between the ground floor and basement at the height of the basement window heads. The basement area in front of the main house is bounded by a low rendered wall of inverted arches between pillars and contains two three-over-six sash windows.

A projecting plat band runs across the main house and west wing just below the first-floor window sills. The central element features four Ionic pilasters rising through the upper two storeys, supporting an entablature with plain frieze and modillioned cornice, which forms part of a stone-coped parapet. The west wing has a simpler cornice below a short parapet with a raised central panel. At first-floor level, the main building has three recessed six-over-six sash windows with architrave surrounds, while the west wing contains a single recessed six-over-six sash without surround. The second floor has three three-over-three sashes with no surrounds. The upper part of the east elevation is smooth rendered and featureless.

The former coach house to the east has a carriage entrance with timber double doors and a single two-pane sash window with round-arched head breaking through a plat band. Circular bosses containing floral reliefs in plaster flank the window. The parapet carries a simple cornice matching the west wing.

The rear (south) elevation of the main building is rendered with a regular fenestration pattern of three flat-headed window openings at each of ground, first and second floors, all containing sashes except for the central second-floor window which is blind. The west wing's rear elevation is similarly rendered with a single flat-headed sash at first-floor level. The coach house rear elevation is of exposed reddish-brown brick with a coach entrance at ground floor and a single sash window at first-floor level. A further former coach house is understood to exist to the rear of the property.

Internally, there is a segmental arch with panelled soffit and a tightly-turned stair with wreathed curtail rail to the ground-floor terminus. Some doors have reeded surrounds.