Castle Pool Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1973. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
Castle Pool Hotel
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1973
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Castle Pool Hotel, Castle Street, Hereford, HR1 2NR
- OS grid reference
- SO 512 397
- Coordinates
- 52.05359, -2.71219
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Pool Hotel is a mid-19th century house that has been converted into a hotel. The building is finished in stucco and features a hipped plain tile mansard roof, with stucco lateral stacks and a stack at the rear.
The exterior consists of three storeys and a six-window range, showcasing plain sashes with awnings set within shouldered moulded architraves. There is a decorated storey band and additional plain sashes with moulded architraves and corbelled sills. The central pairs of windows are flanked by pilasters with enriched capitals, and the corners of the building are accentuated with rusticated quoins. A frieze runs beneath a moulded and modillioned cornice.
The central entrance features a portico with part-glazed, panelled double doors and decorated lights beneath a moulded frieze supported by enriched columns. This entrance is flanked by pairs of plain sashes and has a cast-iron balcony above. The left side of the building has a returned storey band and eaves cornice, with an advanced bay that includes a tier of plain sashes, a balcony, and rusticated quoins. The right side has a tier of two plain sashes in an advanced bay, also with a returned storey band and rusticated quoins.
Inside, the hotel features an Empire staircase with turned balusters and decorative plasterwork, along with pilasters with fluted capitals in the hall. There is a dogleg staircase with ringed, turned balusters. On the first floor, there are four-panel doors with various architraves, a 19th-century marble corner fireplace, and coved ceilings with roses. The ground floor includes a coved and panelled room on the left front and a fireplace. The cellar has a four-panel door.
Local climate
Castle Pool Hotel receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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