45, Castle Street

No. 45 Castle Street is a Grade II* listed building that dates back to 1594, featuring a mid-18th century front added to a 17th century structure. The building stands three storeys tall, constructed of red brick on a raised plinth. It has moulded strings at the first and second floor levels and a moulded dentil brick cornice that projects over pilasters with Doric stone caps and moulded bases, which flank the first and second floors. The pilasters are supported by small projecting brick porches, each with flanking brick pilasters that also have Doric stone caps and moulded stone pediments. The right-hand porch is blocked, while the left-hand porch has been opened to serve as the entrance. Above the main cornice is a renewed brick parapet with moulded stone coping that sweeps up to the sides, with piers that continue the line of the flanking pilasters. There are five windows on each floor, featuring flush architrave framed sashes without glazing bars and flat brick arches. The centre window on the ground floor replaces the original entrance, and the door in the left-hand porch consists of eight fielded panels with a moulded frame.

The rear part of the building, which is the earlier 17th century section, is tile hung and retains some leaded casements. It also includes a two-storey wing with a steeply pitched old tile roof and 19th century rendering on the garden front, which has a centre window flanked by two panels.

Inside, there is a very fine 18th century staircase with twisted balusters and a moulded handrail that sweeps up to columnar newels with shaped brackets. The staircase features good fielded panelling, and there is a diagonally set fireplace in the hall. The hipped roof wing contains an impressive mid-18th century plaster ceiling with a deep raking cove and an elaborately stuccoed beam adorned with foliage and heads above cartouches, along with moulded compartment frames and a moulded cornice. The chimneypiece in this room is notable for its broken pediment and delicate rococo floral ornamentation above.

Nos. 41 to 49 (odd) form a group with this building.