Raglan House

Raglan House, comprising 4-8 Bulkeley Terrace and 1 Raglan Street, is a late-Georgian style terrace of three-storey, three-bay houses. The terrace is predominantly pebble-dashed with smooth-rendered architraves, sill bands and head bands, except for No 4 which features scribed roughcast painted cream. The slate roof is hipped to the left over No 8, and incorporates added skylights and brick and roughcast ridge stacks, with two further stacks positioned at the left end.

Windows throughout are principally 12-pane hornless sashes in the lower and middle storeys, with shorter 9-pane hornless sashes on the upper storey. The central bays of each house contain blind middle and upper-storey windows.

No 4 has its entrance to the right, furnished with a recessed panelled door and overlight. Window surrounds display stopped chamfers, and the lower storey windows have had the top row of panes replaced by a single pane. No 5 features a twentieth-century shop front framed by Tuscan pilasters, with a fascia bearing a modern sign and a moulded cornice. A replaced panelled door stands to the left, a small-pane window to the centre, and another small-pane window to the right, probably occupying the position of a former doorway. No 6's entrance is in the right-hand bay, with a panel door featuring fielded upper panels, an overlight, and a painted freestone surround incorporating stopped chamfers. The windows are replacement sashes. No 7 has a panelled door to the left with fielded upper panels and an overlight in a painted freestone surround with stopped chamfers. The basement contains a segmental-headed window. No 8 occupies a corner site and houses a shop front (Gabriela) in the lower storey. It has a plain shop window to Castle Street framed by simple pilasters, a fascia with added modern sign, and moulded cornice. The entrance is in the splayed corner beneath a hood mould and is fitted with a replacement half-glazed door. The main angle of the building is deeply chamfered at the middle storey. The left side wall, facing Raglan Street, carries a similar shop window to the Castle Street front. Further left is a half-glazed door under a round-headed overlight serving No 1 Raglan Street. Above are central hornless sash windows—12-pane in the middle storey and 9-pane in the upper storey—flanked by blind windows.

The rear elevations show variation in detail but share the same basic three-bay structure with 12-pane hornless sashes in lower and middle storeys and shorter 9-pane sashes in the upper storey with blind central window. The basement storey comprises painted dressed stone with altered openings. No 8 is pebble-dashed with smooth-rendered architraves and lower and middle storey sill bands, featuring a fielded-panel door to the left under a round-headed overlight. No 7 is also pebble-dashed with smooth-rendered keyed architraves in lower and middle storeys and plain architraves in the upper storey; its entrance in the right-hand bay contains a panel door and round-headed overlight in a plain architrave beneath a moulded cornice on head corbels. No 6 is rendered with moulded architraves in the lower and middle storeys and a middle-storey sill band. Its entrance on the left side features a painted freestone surround with stopped chamfers, a moulded cornice on consoles, and a circa 1900 half-glazed door with overlight. No 5 is rendered with moulded architraves to lower and middle storeys and a middle-storey sill band; it has three ground-floor windows, the narrower left-hand window formerly a doorway, and replacement horned sashes. No 4, also rendered, displays moulded architraves with pediments on consoles to the lower and middle-storey windows. The left-hand entrance has a plain architrave and pediment with a half-lit panelled door and overlight of late nineteenth or early twentieth-century date.