Listed Building record TR 15 NW 1311 - 2 CASTLE STREET

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 CASTLE STREET (South East Side)
No 2 TR 1457 NE 4/352 3.5.67.
II GV
2. An early C19 facade to an C18 town house. 3 storeys and basement stuccoed. Moulded stone parapet coping. 5 C18 sashes, some having Italianate surrounds. Centre wirdow spaces are blanks. Moulded architrave to central second floor window space. First floor central window space has a stone pediment, console brackets and 3 paterae. The other windows on this floor have cornices and console brackets. Cast iron anthemion moulded balconettes. 2 stringcourses, 1 with ovolo moulding. Ground floor is rusticated. The windows on the groun d floor are round-headed. Doorcase has a segmental fanlight and guilloche frieze. 4 steps. Footscrapers. The interior contains an Cl8 staircase with 3 turned balusters to each step and scrolled. tread ends. The right side ground floor room has C18 panelling, a carved wooden overmantel depicting flowers and fronts and a wooden cornice frieze. Fielded panelled doors. Nos 1 to 9 (consec) and Nos 12 to 24 (consec) form a group. Listing NGR: TR1476557624 (1)

Description from record TR 15 NW 65:
No 2 Castle Street. (TR 14765762 - OS 1:2500 1957). Grade II*. An early C19 facade to an C18 town house. 3 storeys and basement stuccoed. Moulded stone parapet coping. 5 C18 sashes, some having Italianate surrounds. Centre window spaces are blanks. Moulded archatrive to central second floor window space. First floor central window space has a stone pediment, console brackets and 3 paterae. The other windows on this floor have cornices and console brackets. Cast iron anthemion moulded balconettes. 2 stringcourses, 1 with ovolo moulding. Ground floor is rusticated. The windows on the ground floor are round-headed. Doorcase has a segmental fanlight and guilloche frieze. 4 steps. Footscrapers. The interior contains an C18 staircase with 3 turned balusters to each step and scrolled tread ends. The right side ground floor room has C18 panelling, a carved wooden overmantel depicting flowers and fronts and a wooden cornice frieze. Fielded panelled doors. (2)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> DOE (HHR) City of Canterbury Kent Sept 1973 47 (OS Card Reference). SKE40109.