30, Castle Street

No. 30 Castle Street is a building in Cirencester that serves as offices and a restaurant with a flat above. It dates back to the 16th century, with earlier origins and alterations from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The structure is made of coursed squared limestone rubble and features a Welsh slate roof, with a now-truncated stone ridge stack and a 19th-century brick stack on a lean-to brick extension at the rear.

The main range facing the street is two storeys high, with an attic and cellar, and has a three-window range. The first floor displays three early 20th-century timber oriel windows, featuring horned sashes with 1/1, 2/2, and 1/1 panes, supported by timber mullions and shaped timber brackets. These oriels extend upwards into three similar windows in raking half dormers that light the attic.

On the ground floor, there are two 19th-century shop windows that have undergone 20th-century alterations. To the left, there is a 20th-century bow window and a glazed door beneath a 19th-century timber frieze and moulded cornice. The centre features a 7x3-pane shop window in a 19th-century timber surround with flanking pilasters, a blind box, and a moulded cornice. To the right, there is a small plate glass window in a plain reveal with an exposed timber lintel.

A through-passage to the rear is located to the right, also in a plain reveal with an exposed timber lintel, while the left wall of the passage shows light timber framing with brick infill. The 19th and 20th-century ranges at the rear have been altered and converted into a restaurant.

Inside the main range, there is a heavy unstopped chamfered cross-axial beam with painted decoration, likely from the 17th century, featuring red and cream geometrical and scroll patterns. The heavy joists are laid flat, and a room at the rear, which has been opened out to the front, includes a late 18th-century moulded timber dentil cornice and a section of chair rail with rope moulding on the left wall. The cellar contains two stone spiral staircases, one of which is now blocked, suggesting that there were two earlier buildings on this site. The upper floors have not been inspected.