4, Castle Street

SU 8346 NE 5/4 SU 8346 NE 5/5 26.4.50 1099

CASTLE STREET (West Side) No 4

(Formerly listed as Nos 4 and 4A)

GV II*

2 blocks. Early C19 fronts to a timber-framed building. (No 4A is actually an adjunct at the rear which is irrelevant to the present listing.) Left hand block is lower. 3 storey. Colour-washed stucco. 2 3-light windows to upper part, 2 panes high on 2nd end 4 panes high on 1st floor. Shop front on ground floor of 2 windows and deeply recessed central glazed double door, all framed with reeded pilasters, plain frieze and small coved capping. Right hand block is higher. 3 storey. Colour-washed stucco with projecting bands at 1st and 2nd floor levels. Moulded wood cornice and flat-pitched hipped old tile roof. 2 windows with architrave frames flanking central 3-light window with pilasters and small cornice to upper part. Similar 3-light central window on ground floor, flanked by 2 doors. The right hand door - 6-panel, flush type, with rectangular fanlight, 4 panes, in surround of architrave, plain frieze and delicate dentilled cornice. Reeded doorhead. The left hand door - 6-panel in deep reveal, with reeded doorhead and rectangular fanlight of double central oval and curved scroll pattern with twist ornament at sides, all wrought iron, in shallow porch of slender reeded wall pilasters and Doric columns supporting entablature, with enriched fluted frieze and cornice with feather ornament to bed mould.

All the listed buildings, with Nos 1 to 9 (consec) Lowndes Buildings, in Castle Street (West Side) form a group.

Listing NGR: SU8394846911