Restaurant, including attached rear range (Thai Decor)

Restaurant, including attached rear range (Thai Decor)

A late Georgian three-storey house and shop on a corner site with entrances in Castle Street and Rating Row. It comprises a short rear wing connected to a formerly detached range at the rear, also accessed from Rating Row.

The four-bay Castle Street front is an early nineteenth-century remodelling creating a symmetrical three-bay house to the centre and right, with a one-bay house to the left entered from Rating Row. The walls are scribed roughcast painted white, with a slate roof. A roughcast stack rises on the right, and a stone stack with two diagonal shafts stands on the left. The central entrance to the right-hand dwelling has Tuscan columns supporting a gabled open porch, with a replacement glazed door below an overlight boarded up and painted with Gothic intersecting glazing bars. To the right and left are twentieth-century plate-glass shop windows set in early nineteenth-century openings, probably originally containing tripartite sashes. The middle storey features a twelve-pane hornless sash window above the entrance, a four-pane oriel window to the right, and a tripartite twelve-pane sash window to the left. The upper storey has a blocked right-hand window, a six-pane fixed window above the entrance bay, and a tripartite small-pane fixed window to its left.

The single-bay house on the left side has a recessed glazed door with small-pane splayed side panels, inserted into a former window opening cut down to ground level. The middle storey contains a sixteen-pane hornless sash window and the upper storey a blocked window.

In the left gabled end, an early twentieth-century balcony has been removed, leaving exposed brackets. This balcony continued further left under a high wall with moulded cornice, which conceals an added lean-to entrance hall behind the main range and a small courtyard. The main Rating Row entrance is approached through double cast iron Tuscan columns and features a recessed half-glazed panelled door with half-glazed side panels. To its left is a segmental boarded door opening to the rear yard. The rear of the main house displays a gabled lateral stack to the right of centre and a gabled roof dormer to its right. On the left side is an original stair projection with a coped gable on moulded kneelers, connected to the formerly separate rear range by a lower link. The stair projection has a blocked two-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window in the upper storey, to the right of which is a small inserted window. To the left of the stair projection is a nine-pane sash window in a half dormer.

The rear range is constructed of rubble stone and roughcast with a steep slate roof. Its whitened render gable end faces Rating Row, with inserted openings comprising a replacement door, a small-pane shop window, and a smaller window further right. The upper storey has a blind window with painted glazing. Its rear elevation, facing the yard at the back of the property but probably the original entrance front, shows altered openings and a first-floor balcony, and is attached to No 2 Rating Row on the right side. The elevation facing the small courtyard features a small-pane hornless sash window in the upper storey.

The lower storey originally comprised three units but is now a single room with ovolo-moulded cross beams. The lateral fireplace has been infilled. The Rating Row entrance opens to a stair hall with an open-well stair featuring plain balusters and turned newel. The original stair projection contains a replacement full-height stair with plain balusters and newels. The middle storey has four cross beams with pyramid stops. Four collar-beam trusses incorporate raking struts.

The rear range has cross beams with ogee stops, and a collar-beam roof was recorded during the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales survey.