11-19, CASTLE STREET

This is a group of buildings at 11-19 Castle Street, dating back to the 18th and early to mid-19th centuries, with some fronts replacing earlier structures.

Numbers 11 and 12 likely date to the late 18th or early 19th century, and probably originally had a tile mansard roof, although they have been later refronted. They have a shallow-pitched slate gable roof and three storeys with two bays. The buildings are constructed of red brick with windows set in reveals. The ground floor has a plain shop front, and the first floor windows lack glazing bars.

Number 13, also dating to the late 18th or early to mid-19th century, is one bay wide and has a slate gabled roof. Behind a roughcast front, the structure is of stone rubble. The windows retain their glazing bars and have an iron guard. The front door features six flush panels, with the top two cut away and glazed, set within an architrave frame flanked by pilasters and surmounted by a cornice resting on brackets. Giant pilasters are located at each side of the building.

Numbers 14 and 15, dating to the late 18th or early to mid-19th century, have a higher frontage with three storeys. Number 14 is cemented, while Number 15 is red brick. The windows are mainly sash windows with four panes per sash, except on the upper floors of Number 15. The doorway of Number 14 features a new doorcase with fluted pilasters, a necking band that forms the top of the door surround, an entablature, and a triangular pediment. The door is six-fielded and has a rectangular fanlight with diamond and rectilinear tracery. The doorway of Number 15 has an architrave frame, pilasters, and a thin triangular pediment on console brackets. The door is six-panelled, with the top two panels cut away and glazed.

Numbers 16, 17, and 18 have a late 18th and later red brick front, concealing a 17th or earlier timber-framed building. They are two storeys and have an attic, with one bay and one door each. Steeply pitched old tile roofs are present, along with a large stack between numbers 17 and 18, a tall stack to the left on number 16’s ridge, and one hipped dormer on each building. Nos 17 and 18 have brick dentil eaves. In Number 17, the 19th-century shop front incorporates a small three-light window to the right and a door to the left, both flanked by pilasters with a fascia and cornice above. Number 16 has a six-panelled door with the top two panels cut away and glazed, and a thin triangular pediment on cut console brackets. Number 18 has a four-panelled door and a flat hood on cut brackets.

Number 19, dating to the late 18th or early to mid-19th century, is three storeys high and one bay wide. It has an old tile gabled roof, brick dentil eaves, and a brick front. The windows have three panes each with flush frames and segmental heads. The doorcase has narrow pilasters, a moulded cornice on cut console brackets, a four-panelled door, and a rectangular fanlight.

The listed buildings, along with numbers 1 to 9 Lowndes Buildings, form a group.