39 Castle Street

This is a late 18th-century house, with extensions likely dating to the 19th century, and a ground-floor rebuild in the 20th century following its use as a shop. The front of the building is brick-built under a clay tile roof, while the rear has a slate roof.

The house has a main entrance on the right side of the front elevation, and a smaller entrance on the left, providing access to the rear. It is three storeys high with an attic, built above a basement at the rear. The front elevation originally featured four principal bays on the right and a single, narrower bay to the left. The walls are silver-grey brick in a header bond, with red brick quoins and dressings.

The main entrance has a late 18th-century six-panel door with applied mouldings, set within an arched recess. Above the door is a radiating and wreathed fanlight contained within a rounded arch of gauged brick. The door surround features fluted Doric pilasters supporting a cornice. To the left of the doorway, there are three 20th-century sash windows with two-over-two panes, set within flat-arched brickwork. The narrower bay has a late 20th-century door and architrave.

The first and second floors of the original four bays each have flat-arched window openings with red-brick surrounds, the first-floor windows being taller. The replacement sashes have two-over-two panes to the first floor and three-over-three panes to the second floor. Four evenly spaced pattress plates are positioned across the elevation to match the height of the first-floor window arches. The first and second-floor openings in the narrower bay have a similar design but are lower and contain uPVC two-pane sashes. A brick cornice and parapet run across the front elevation, partially concealing the roof which has crested tiles along the front ridge.

The rear elevation is of mixed-bond red brickwork and has an irregular pattern of window openings. A centrally-placed doorway has a 20th-century door within a bolection-moulded plaster surround. To the left is a mid-20th-century canted bay window rising through the basement and raised-ground floor, with three six-over-six pane sashes under flat arched heads on each floor. To the right of the doorway is a flat-arched window opening with a six-over-six pane timber sash. On the first floor, placed off-centre above the central doorway, is a round-arched sash window flush with the brickwork, along with two timber sashes.