Building record 1179505000 - 22 & 23 CASTLE STREET

Grade II. Pair of shops and dwellings, now offices. Mid-C18, altered C19 and C20. Brick with hipped C20 plain-tile roofs behind parapet. Double-depth plan. 3-storey, 4-window range. Ground floor is composed of 2 wide, shallow, canted bay shop windows under continuous fascia, with glazing bars and glazed doors to far left and far right on continuous low York stone plinth. Fascia is supported by unfluted, Tuscan columns either end and to centre and has pulvinated frieze and dentilled cornice. C19 sash windows to 1st and 2nd floors with painted stone sills and key blocks to flat-arched heads. Jambs and heads of windows are of fine orange brick, walling otherwise of blue or overburnt brick in header bond. Storey band and cornice band in same fine orange brick. Plain coped parapet of flared headers in header bond. Louvred openings to middle of shop bay windows for basements.
INTERIOR: No.23 has stair from basement to attic with continuous stop-chamfered newels and column-on-vase balusters. Basement has stop-chamfered spine beam (B1).