Rain Restaurant And Wine Bar

Rain Restaurant and Wine Bar is a house, shop, and office that has been converted into a restaurant. It is one of a pair of buildings constructed in 1866 by William Wilkinson of Oxford for W.J. Douglas, the owner of Castle House. The building is designed in Gothic style and features red, white, blue, and black brick with dressings made from two different types of stone. It has a hipped, slated roof with a finial and a brick end stack. The structure is two storeys plus an attic with a narrow frontage. The ground floor showcases heavy carving around the window and door openings, including foliated capitals on four pillars. There is a double casement window on the first floor and an attic dormer, along with dentilled eaves. This building is noted as a rare example, along with the adjacent No. 24, of a folly or double cottage ornée.