52 Castle Street

This is a short, late-Georgian style terrace of three three-storey houses situated on a corner site, comprising numbers 50-52 Castle Street and 2 Steeple Lane. The buildings have pebble-dashed walls above a freestone plinth, with ashlar quoins and a slate roof featuring roughcast, brick, and pebble-dashed stacks.

Numbers 50 and 52 Castle Street are each two-bay houses, with the entrance located in the left-hand bay, above which are blind windows. Number 50 has a moulded doorcase framing a recessed door of two round-headed panels and an overlight. To the right of the door is a 12-pane horned sash window beneath an entablature with a dentilled cornice. The middle floor features a two-light oriel window. Other windows have smooth-rendered architraves with raised bands, and the upper floor has a 9-pane sash window. Number 52 has a painted freestone surround to a six-panel door and plain overlight. Its windows are 12-pane hornless sashes on the lower and middle floors, with a shorter 9-pane sash window on the upper floor.

Number 2 Steeple Lane presents a single bay facing Castle Street, with a 12-pane hornless sash window on the lower floor, a two-light oriel window on the middle floor, and a shorter 9-pane hornless sash window on the upper floor. The Steeple Lane elevation includes a four-panel door and a 12-pane hornless sash window to the left, with a replacement stair window located in the upper left corner.

At the rear, Number 2 Steeple Lane has small sash windows above a single-storey lean-to. Number 52 Castle Street has hornless small-pane and replacement sashes, and Number 50 Castle Street has a later, added rear wing. The buildings belong to a group relating to 50-52 Castle Street and 2 Steeple Lane.