Castle Cinema

Detached eight-bay double-height cinema, built 1944, on a rectangular plan with single- or two-bay double-height flat-roofed projecting block (west). Closed, 1981. Now disused. Two recessed doors with terrazzo steps, with concrete canopy above. Three windows with a continuous sill to first floor, above which is raised lettering. Roughcast-rendered walls with buttresses and pitched corrugated roof to auditorium.

This cinema is a typical example of mid twentieth-century functional architecture. Its design is simple yet stylish, incorporating elements such as terrazzo and narrow windows. It stands as a reminder of a period in social history, when every sizeable town in the country had a cinema, which was an important social venue, before the arrival of television.