Castle Frome is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1953. Farmhouse.
Castle Frome
- WRENN ID
- wild-moulding-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1953
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Castle Frome, Almeley
- OS grid reference
- SO 332 512
- Coordinates
- 52.15583, -2.9772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Frome is a farmhouse that may date back to the 14th or 15th century, with alterations made in the 17th century and later. It features a sandstone rubble plinth, a timber-frame structure with brick infill, weatherboards, and a roughcast sandstone rubble gable. The roof is made of sandstone slate and corrugated iron, with sandstone rubble stacks that have brick shafts. The building is arranged in an L-shape, with the main range oriented east to west and a wing projecting north at the west end. It has one storey and an attic.
On the south elevation, there is an exposed timber-framed gable front to the left. A stone stack with a brick shaft partially obscures the scissor struts at the top of the gable. To the left of the stack are two square early 20th-century windows, and to the right is a 2-light late 20th-century casement window. A ledged door to the right of the gable leads into the main range, which has a roof that is half-hipped to the right. The west elevation is roughcast and features two gabled dormers. The north elevation has two timber-framed gables that project from the right side. The frame on the south side of the projecting wing has three panels of thin scantling on the first floor.
Inside the eastern weatherboarded part of the main range, there is a barn that may have originally been a hall, featuring three pairs of cruck blades, all with collars and spurs, and one with arch-braces to its collar.
Local climate
Castle Frome receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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