59 and 61 Castle Street

Pair of terraced houses, early C19, used as a women’s refuge from the 1880s to 1915 or later, converted to offices in the late 1980s.

MATERIALS: Gault brick in Flemish bond with stucco cornice, red brick to the rear; with a roof covering of slate.

PLAN: symmetrical pair of townhouses of three storeys plus basement. Three bays per house with a principal entrance and stair in the outer bays and two chimney stacks in the central party wall. The roof is hipped, behind a low parapet.

EXTERIOR: the principal entrances comprise six-panelled doors with fanlight over, within round-headed openings. Ground and first floor windows are six-over-six sashes, second floor windows are three-over-six sashes; all have flat gauged-brick arches. At the wall head is a stucco parapet cornice. At the pavement edge are barred basement lights.

The rear elevations are of red brick and are largely symmetrical but with some alteration to the window arrangement. Windows are sashes of various configurations. The rear gardens of the two houses are now combined and have been re-landscaped during the late C20 or early C21.