The Castle Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1983. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
The Castle Hotel
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-jade-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1983
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Castle Hotel, High Street, Wem Urban
- OS grid reference
- SJ 513 289
- Coordinates
- 52.85581, -2.72372
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Castle Hotel is a circa 17th-century timber-frame building, originally stuccoed, and significantly altered in the 18th and 19th centuries. It has a low-pitched Welsh slate roof with gabled ends. The first floor is roughcast. A string course runs at the level of the first-floor window sills, with a bend at the level of the second floor. The building features rusticated quoins and has three storeys with a three-window range. The windows are sashes with glazing bars and keyblocks, with the ground floor sashes having rusticated jambs. A late 18th-century doorcase is located to the right of centre, featuring fluted pilasters, a blind rectangular fanlight, panelled reveals, and a flush-panel door. A 19th-century portico with Doric columns supports an entablature topped with a model of a castle. The building has 19th-century brick ridge chimney stacks.
Local climate
The Castle Hotel receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
- 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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