Castle Hill

Castle Hill is a house that has been partly converted into a shop. It likely dates from the mid-18th century and has undergone alterations in the mid to late 19th century, as well as further changes in the late 20th century. The building is rendered over dressed sandstone and features a 20th-century asbestos-slate roof, which is gable-ended on the left side and half-hipped on the right. The stack has been rebuilt in 20th-century brick.

The original plan is a two-room layout with a central entrance passage, and a former coach house incorporated into the left-hand end. There is an axial stack in the right-hand room, which backs onto the entrance passage. A shop was added to the left of the entrance in the 19th century. The shop has been altered, the building rendered, and most windows replaced, with further changes to the roof in the 20th century.

The exterior features a symmetrical five-bay front. The first floor has 12-pane glazing bar sash windows, which are likely 20th-century replacements that resemble the original 18th-century sashes. The ground floor has 16-pane glazing bar sashes with segmental heads flanking the doorway, although the right-hand window is a 20th-century replacement. The right-hand ground-floor bay has also been altered, with a small 20th-century twelve-pane glazing bar sash replacing what was probably a doorway, likely added in the 19th century. The left-hand bay contains a 20th-century shopfront.

The central door, probably from the 19th century, has three raised and fielded upper panels and one panel below, along with a three-part rectangular overlight. It is sheltered by a 19th-century bracketed gabled porch with shaped barge boards. The former coach house on the left features a tall first-floor 18th-century boxed 15-pane glazing bar sash, which has six panes in the upper leaf and nine panes in the lower leaf, as well as a pair of large ground-floor boarded double doors.

Inside, the building has been significantly altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. There is an 18th-century door with two raised and fielded panels between the entrance passage and the right-hand ground-floor room. At the rear, there are two 19th-century staircases with rectangular-section stick balusters.