The Castle is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1967. Country house. 7 related planning applications.
The Castle
- WRENN ID
- deep-facade-heron
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington MP: Grahame Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1967
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- The Castle, Castle Eden, TS27 4SL
- OS grid reference
- NZ 427 387
- Coordinates
- 54.74229, -1.33738
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Castle is a country house built around 1765 by William Newton for Rowland Burdon I. It was possibly altered and given Gothick details by Sir John Soane around 1780. Later additions include a palmhouse from 1863 designed by F.R. Hicks and a north wing added in 1893. The main block is constructed from ashlar Hesleden limestone with a slate roof, while the rear is made of rubble. The palmhouse is prefabricated concrete and features a classical style with Gothick details.
The building has a symmetrical three-storey, seven-bay front, with a canted three-bay center that includes a single-storey six-bay palmhouse with half-bay ends on the ground floor. The palmhouse has a central Tudor-arched entrance, flanking four-light mullioned-and-transomed windows, an embattled parapet with pinnacles, and a hipped glass roof. The main block features replaced 12-pane sashes and replaced 6-pane sashes on the third storey, with windows that have depressed-pointed heads and hoodmoulds. The embattled parapet has slightly projecting square corner turrets, and the low-pitched hipped roof has ridge chimneys. The five-bay returns and rear display similar architectural details.
The three-storey, two-bay north wing has ground-floor bay windows with embattled parapets and three-light mullioned windows above, along with an eaves cornice, parapet, and hipped slate roof.
Inside, the house features neo-classical details. The central hall leads to an oval saloon, which has a second-floor gallery running around three sides, supported on the fourth side by a screen of Ionic columns and end pilasters, with a domed roof light above. Several mid-18th century chimneypieces and other contemporary fittings are present.
20th-century additions are not of special interest.
Local climate
The Castle receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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