24  Castle Street

The 1840 Tithe Map shows that the property now known as 24 Castle Street had the plot number 274 so it is possible to get some idea of the position and size of the house at that time.  We are still no nearer finding how old this house was or what it looked like in its earlier days.

The house has undergone many changes in its appearance over the years.  Until the most recent changes it looked like this photo on the left.  Currently it looks like the photo on the right.

Some  traces of earlier features remain inside the house and at its rear.  At one time it was possible to enter the  garden from the street and the narrow passage way between the extension on the back of the house and number 26 was apparently used by a previous owner who kept goats and was able to drive them through the door and into Castle Street.  You can click on the photo below to see the passageway more clearly.

There are still  indications of outbuildings and we have some evidence as to what they may have been.  In 1852 The Bristol Mercury carried a notice advertising the sale by auction on April 3rd 1852 of the property.  It described it as "a convenient and well-built freehold dwelling house situate in the town of Thornbury with bake house, stable and necessary outbuildings and productive garden".  The same advertisement says that this house (lot1 in the sale) had a passage way which was a right of way for number 26 (which was lot 2 in the sale).

As far as we have been able to determine, 24 Castle Street and 26 Castle Street had the same owners for much of the time and so we have dealt with the owners of both properties on the same pages.

Click here to read about the owners 24 and 26 Castle Street.

Click here to read about the occupiers of 24 Castle Street

This page was last updated: 16/07/2010