5, Castle Street

This is a late 18th-century house, altered in the early 19th and 20th centuries. It is located on Castle Street in Buckingham. The house is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a plain-tile roof and brick stacks. The main front has three stories and five windows. A central six-panel door, accessed by three stone steps, has an overlight divided into four square panes, a moulded wooden surround, and a hood with a small dentilled cornice supported by shaped brackets. The ground and first floor windows are 12-paned sashes with gauged brick flat-arched heads above. The second floor has 9-pane sashes with similar flat-arched heads. A rendered plinth incorporates a cellar window with a segmental-arched head to the left. The building features storey bands and a dentilled brick cornice.

A two-story rear range has a double-hipped roof and a two-story canted bay window facing towards the garden. To the right of the front range is a wing with a rendered front, containing a 20th-century glazed door to the left of an early 19th-century bay shop window. The wing also has a small wood mullion and transom window on the first floor. The interior of the drawing room contains a mid-18th-century carved wood chimney-piece with egg-and-dart ornament and a pulvinated frieze. A mahogany staircase runs from the ground to the first floor, with an open well, stick balusters, a ramped and wreathed handrail, a pair of niches at the intermediate level, and an oval skylight. The dining room has a fitted mahogany cupboard double-leaf doors, glazed at the top with Gothic arched glazing bars.