Description

CASTLE STREET
1.
1594 (West Side)
Nos 27, 29, 29A
(including premises to rear
of No 29A at west end of yard)
SU 1430 SW 1/402
II GV
2.
Mid to later C19. 3 storeys red brick symmetrical front. Heavy rusticated
stone quoins, carved up into parapet with moulded coping. Moulded string
between storeys and heavy moulded cornice. The upper floors have central
window and flanking superimposed brick bays also with heavily rusticated quoins,
the cornice and parapet breaking forward over, and with moulded stepped bases
at 1st floor level. Sash windows segment headed, centre windows wider, no
glazing bars. Central archway with rusticated surround on ground floor.
Altered modernised shop fronts either side. To the rear of No 27 is a 3 storey
timber framed tile hung wing C17 or early C18, with jettied 2nd floor. Hipped
old tile roof. To the rear of the yard adjoining the wing of No 29A at right
angles is a former warehouse, mid C17. Queen post roof with butt purlins
and plain wind braces.

Nos 27 to 35 (odd) form a group.

Listing NGR: SU1434430158

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26638577

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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