house

Terraced two-bay three-storey house, c.1825, possibly over basement. Refenestrated, c.1925. Renovated, c.1975, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks with one having red brick dressings, stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, rendered coping including to party wall, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement two-over-two timber sash windows, c.1925. Shopfront, c.1975, to ground floor with fixed-pane aluminium display window, glazed aluminium door having overlight, and fascia over. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A pleasantly composed house wholly-integrated into a difficult site on account of the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a tiered visual effect while maintaining a common roofline. With the exception of a shopfront of little design interest, the house has otherwise been well maintained to retain the simple architectural attributes together with most of the historic fabric, thereby making a positive visual impression in the street scene of Castle Hill.