10 and 12 Castle Street

Pair of early C19 houses, converted to shops in the late C19 and extended to the rear in the C20.

MATERIALS: built of brick with timber shopfronts, under a roof of slate and plain tiles.

PLAN: main entrances to the centre, incorporated into the shopfront at number 12. Number 12 also has a side entrance.

EXTERIOR: the houses are three-storey, over a basement with a later mansard attic storey. The brown brick is laid in Flemish bond and the window openings to the first and second floors have gauged brick and flat arches. There is a stone cill band above the ground floor and each house is served by a tall, brick stack.

12 Castle Street has a timber shopfront with transom glazing, flanked by a pair of stucco Doric pilasters rising to a Doric entablature bearing the shop fascia. The recessed entrance door appears to be C20. There is a tripartite multi-pane window to the first and second floor and a multi-pane, flat-roofed dormer to the mansard. The plain cornice appears to be timber and is located beneath a rendered parapet.

10 Castle Street has a six-panel door with a radiating and wreathed fanlight above, set within a stuccoed round-arched architrave, under gauged brickwork. It is approached by a set of rounded steps. The shopfront is plain with two, plate glass windows and a glazed door. The first and second floors have the same window design as number 12, with the addition of a 12-pane sash window to each floor, above the main doorway. There is a dentil brick cornice and parapet. The mansard has two flat-roofed dormers, which have uPVC multi-pane windows.

Across the rear elevation of both houses, there is a variety of timber sash windows, including a large stair window in the central bay of the second floor. There are three dormers in the mansard. Projecting north from the rear elevation of number 10 are a series of later C20 extensions, constructed of brick with flat roofs and casement windows.