The Castle Restaurant

The Castle Restaurant is a house that has been converted into a restaurant. It dates from the mid-17th century, with an 18th-century front and 19th-century alterations and extensions. The building features colourwashed brick on a rendered plinth and has a plain tiled mansard roof. It is two storeys tall with attics, which include two flat-roofed dormers that have 16-pane glazing-bar sash windows. The façade has end piers and a plat band over the ground floor, along with massive brick stacks at the rear.

On the first floor, there are three 19th-century plate-glass sash windows in moulded boxes, and two windows below. The central entrance door consists of six fielded panels and is located under a blocked traceried fanlight that has a central circle, all set within a re-used Ware surround featuring half-columns with acanthus capitals. There are dosserets above and an open modillioned pediment. To the right of the main door, there is another half-glazed door with a blocked transom light.

On the left side of the building, the return front has two cambered-head sash windows on the ground floor, while the right side features a 20th-century brick buttressed retaining wall and a lower brick extension at the rear.

Inside, the second floor has timber-framed partition walls and stop-chamfered beams. There are two-panel and wide-boarded doors with H hinges, deep fireplaces with wooden mantles, and a staircase with square newels and turned balusters on a close string.