Remains of Clun Castle is a Grade I listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. A 1090-1110 Castle.
Remains of Clun Castle
- WRENN ID
- vast-hearth-thunder
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1951
- Type
- Castle
- Address
- Remains of Clun Castle, Castle Street
- OS grid reference
- SO 298 809
- Coordinates
- 52.42229, -3.03316
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The remains of Clun Castle date from between 1090 and 1110, with 13th-century additions made by the Fitzallans. The structure is built from coursed limestone rubble, featuring roughly squared facing and sandstone ashlar dressings. The site includes extensive earthworks, with a motte to the west and three baileys to the east. The ruins are situated on the motte, with the keep located to the north, a pair of 13th-century semi-circular curtain wall towers to the west, and a fragment of wall to the south.
The keep has walls remaining on the north, west, and east sides, with a basement and three storeys. It features wide clasping buttresses and a battered basement on the north side, along with scattered round-arched openings on each floor. The towers consist of fragments of semi-circular structures, with the southern tower displaying two dressed stone arches on its north side. There is also a small fragment of the curtain wall to the south.
The castle was constructed alongside a planned town to the east and is positioned high above a bend in the River Clun, near where it meets the River Unk. The strategic importance of the site is evident from the views available from the surrounding hills, particularly from the Clun valley to the west.
Local climate
Remains of Clun Castle receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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