Castle Gate, 1-6 (Consecutive Nos) Harbour Court

Basil Spence and Partners, 1948-51 (Basil Spence, partner-in-charge; Hardie Glover, job architect; Andrew Renton, designer; Bruce Robertson, partner in charge; Sarah McCosh; Bill Rowarth; James Beveridge, Richard Cassidy). 3-storey, irregular L-plan housing with Modernist and vernacular references; part of a municipal housing development near harbour with land falling away to E. Cavity brick construction, predominantly painted harl, red sandstone random rubble to advanced sections at ground floor. Flatted ground floor with maisonettes above. Ground floor advanced to N elevation and 2 bay return to form exterior entrance walkway at 1st floor; angled stair to right of N elevation. Concrete walkway, treads, balconies, projecting narrow cills and cantilevered stepped canopies over maisonettes entrance doors; iron balustrades. Timber entrance doors, some with original glazed sidelight, some with half-glazed sidelight. Some raised ground and 1st floor windows in architraves.

N (HARBOUR COURT) ELEVATION: 4 bays with 5-bay return; 4 bays to left advanced. Predominately projecting concrete surround to ground and 1st floor window openings. Balcony over door in re-entrant angle and door to right of centre. Exterior walkway over ground floor entrance supported on single slender steel column. Ground floor stores to N elevation and underneath stair.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: 7 bays (4 bays to right taller and advanced). Irregular fenestration; door at ground floor to outer right with forestair and balcony above; door to outer left at 1st floor accessed via forestair from Castle Gate.

S (CASTLE GATE) ELEVATION: 2 storeys, 4 bays with 2-storey gable to right, stepped back to form raised patio area. Door to right of centre with forestair. Projecting concrete surrounds to ground floor window to outer left and gable.

W (GABLE) ELEVATION: 2 storeys; door to left.

Variety of replacement glazing and doors. Pantiled pitched roofs; random rubble and coped ridge and end stacks, with cylindrical clay cans.

INTERIORS (partially seen 2010): simple plan-forms of flats and maisonettes generally intact; fisherman stores to ground floor.