P Alton Murphy Opticians, 3 Bulkeley Terrace

Alton Murphy Opticians, 3 Bulkeley Terrace is part of a terrace of three late-Georgian style 3-storey houses facing Castle Street. The terrace has pebble-dashed frontage, a slate roof hipped to the right, two roughcast stacks and a central brick stack. A tooled stone plinth incorporates basement windows set in lightwells.

Number 3 is a 3-bay shop and house with rusticated quoins and smooth-rendered architraves. The lower storey contains a shop front on the right, framed by pilasters with raised fields beneath a deep cornice supported on cast iron brackets. A plain shop window has a painted panel above the transom. To its left is a recessed half-glazed door with a pivoting overlight. The house entrance further left has slate steps and a recessed half-glazed panelled door under a small-pane overlight. Adjacent is a 12-pane hornless sash window above a segmental-headed basement sash window. The middle storey has 12-pane hornless sash windows, and the upper storey has shorter 9-pane hornless sashes.

Numbers 1 and 2 are 2-bay with roughcast walls painted cream. Number 2 has smooth-rendered architraves to 12-pane hornless sashes and shorter 9-pane upper-storey sashes. Its entrance, in an eared architrave in the left-hand bay, has a panelled door with fielded upper panels and plain overlight, with slate steps. The basement has a replacement window. Number 1 has blind windows in the right-hand bay, with 12-pane and 9-pane hornless sash windows similar to Numbers 2 and 3. Replacement basement windows are in each bay. The entrance is in the right side wall to Alma Street, with a fielded-panel door under a plain overlight and slate steps on the left side of the elevation. Above are stair windows: a 12-pane sash window in the middle storey and a replacement small-pane top-hung casement in the upper storey. Another replaced basement window is on the right side.

In the rear elevation facing the sea front, Numbers 1 and 2 have 2-storey canted bay windows added in the early 20th century, with replacement French doors in the lower storey and a 2-light window above. The upper storey has 2 small-pane top-hung casements in each house. Steps to the basement are on the left side of the lower storey.

Number 3's rear has a scribed render wall painted white. It has a single bay in line with Numbers 1 and 2, and 2 bays brought forward in line with Numbers 4-8. The left-hand bay has eared architraves with cornices and shaped pediments to 12-pane hornless sash windows in the lower and middle storeys and a 9-pane hornless sash window in the upper storey. The side wall of the central bay has a circa 1900 open wooden hipped lean-to porch of 3 bays by 1 bay, with 4-centred arches and latticework dado, leading to a half-glazed panelled door and overlight, with a small window to the right. The main elevation has a replacement 2-light margin-lit window in the lower storey, 12-pane hornless sashes in the middle storey, all in eared architraves with cornices and shaped pediments, and 9-pane hornless sash windows in the upper storey. Stone steps to the basement are on the left side, which has altered openings.

Internally, from the Castle Street entrance is a corridor leading to the stair hall, which has an open-well stair with moulded square newels, turned balusters and panelled tread ends.