134-144 Castle Hill

This is a terrace of six early 19th-century houses, now used as flats and houses. The principal, southern façade is of Bath Stone-coloured stucco, while the other elevations are of red brick in Flemish bond. The ground floor of the western elevation is rendered grey, scored to resemble masonry. The roof is slate. The building is three storeys high with a basement.

Designed in a neoclassical Regency style, the terrace presents a symmetrical frontage to Castle Hill, with twelve bays under a hipped roof, two bays assigned to each house. The roof eaves project beyond the elevations, showing a plain timber soffit at street level, and shallow gabled bays project slightly to the street front of numbers 136 and 142. Four chimney stacks are placed in pairs on the roof ridge, flanking the gables on numbers 136 and 142. The ground floor of the Castle Hill frontage features a series of round-arched openings. The first floor of each property has two square-headed six-over-six sash windows. The central and end houses have an oval window on the second floor. Penultimate houses have a glazing bar sash window on the second floor beneath the shallow gables. The end houses are accessed from the flanks, with two round-headed windows to the ground floor of the Castle Hill frontage.

A projecting, gabled brick porch is attached to the east side of number 134. Number 144 has a render on the ground floor of its west front, with brickwork above, and a six-panelled front door within a reeded timber surround, topped by a sunburst fanlight; this style is consistent across the properties. Each property has a round-arched doorway and a single round-headed sash window on the ground floor. Numbers 140 and 138 are slightly asymmetrical, with number 140 being slightly wider than number 138. Number 140 has two round-headed sash windows and a centrally placed round-arched main entrance matching those throughout the terrace. The ground floor of number 138 is similarly composed, with one round-headed sash window instead of two.

The rear, north, elevation is of exposed red brickwork in Flemish bond and contains a variety of sash windows, generally six-over-six on the first floor and three-over-six at the second-floor level. A brick string course, at the height of the first-floor sill on the road front, runs around the building. Except for number 134, each property has a single-storey, brick lean-to with a slate roof on the rear elevation, varying in size. A shoulder-height red brick wall, appearing to be of Victorian origin, borders the western boundary of 144 Castle Hill.