Penyard Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1973. Castle.
Penyard Castle
- WRENN ID
- first-garret-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1973
- Type
- Castle
- Address
- Penyard Castle, Weston Under Penyard
- OS grid reference
- SO 618 225
- Coordinates
- 51.90057, -2.55626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penyard Castle consists of the ruins of a castle and house, dating from the early 14th century and the 17th century. The structure is built from sandstone. The north and south gable walls, along with chimneys and part of the east wall, are the remaining parts of the house. The north wall features a blocked window on the first floor, which has two trefoiled ogee lights. The south wall includes a blocked chamfered doorway with a canted head. To the west, a detached wall stands at approximately five metres high. At the time of the survey in April 1986, the site was overgrown and not fully visible. The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England recorded the remains of a 14th-century undercroft adjoining the south of the house in 1932.
Local climate
Penyard Castle receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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