47 and 49 Castle Street

Pair of early-C19 terraced houses, now offices.

MATERIALS: principal elevations of Bath Stone, red brick to the rear. The roof covering is slate, windows and doors are timber.

PLAN: each of the two houses is approximately square in plan, three bays wide and of three storeys plus basement under a pitched roof with parapet. The houses are served by a party wall stack.

EXTERIOR: the principle façade is of dressed Bath Stone with a rusticated ground floor, string courses at first and second floors and a projecting parapet cornice. The elevations of the two houses are mirrored. The entrances are in the outer bays, comprising four-panelled doors with fanlights within round-arched openings. The ground floor windows are round-headed sashes with glazing bars. First floor windows are six-over-six sashes, the outer ones with carved architraves and cornices, the central one within an incised round arch. Second floor windows are three-over-three sashes, with incised surrounds.

The rear elevation is of red brick. Despite some alterations the houses are essentially mirrored: doors in the outer bays with stair windows above, and a single window lighting each floor.