1, 3 And 5, Castlegate

1, 3, and 5 Castlegate are three houses that have been converted into a shop and café. They have origins dating back to the early 18th century but were refronted in the early 19th century, with later alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The front is finished in pink and cream mottled brick laid in English garden-wall bond, with ashlar dressings. The rear features a mix of rubble stone and orange-red brick in a random bond, topped with pantile roofs that are higher at No.1, which has brick ridge stacks.

The building has three stories and a seven-window front. No.1 features a panelled front door set in a quoined doorcase beneath a cambered arch made of stepped voussoirs, with a vermiculated keystone. To the left of the door is a single-pane sash window with a flat arch of voussoirs and a stone sill. To the right, there is a shop front with plain pilasters, moulded imposts, and a moulded cornice, along with a three-quarter glazed shop door in a panelled reveal next to a half-canted plate-glass window with a shaped mullion.

The doors to Nos. 3 and 5 are half-glazed with overlights, situated in segment-headed doorcases with quoins and stepped voussoirs featuring vermiculated keyblocks. To the left of No. 3 is a single-pane sash window, while the remaining ground floor windows are three-light, set beneath segmental arches of brick with vermiculated triple keyblocks; one window has been altered to plate glass with a flat arch of voussoirs. The first floor windows consist of 12- or 16-pane sashes, and the second floor features squat 6- or 8-pane sashes, all with stone sills and flat brick arches. The building is capped with a cogged brick eaves cornice. At the rear of No. 5, a lodged jetty plate is exposed beneath the eaves.