Castor House is a Grade II* listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1955. House. 4 related planning applications.
Castor House
- WRENN ID
- white-string-bone
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Castor House, Peterborough Road, City of Peterborough, PE5 7AX
- OS grid reference
- TL 127 982
- Coordinates
- 52.57004, -0.33779
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castor House is an early 18th century stone house with a rendered front, located on the north side of Peterborough Road in Castor. It features a steeply pitched double span roof with coped gable ends and stands two storeys tall with an attic, comprising five bays. The windows are sashes with glazing bars set in moulded stone architraves that have keyblocks, and there are French doors on the right side of the ground floor. A stone band runs at floor level, and the building has rusticated stone quoins. The central doorway is framed by a moulded stone architrave, a pulvinated frieze, and a cornice. The roof includes three hipped dormers with three-light casements, and the end stacks are made of ashlar with cornices.
Inside, there is a contemporary staircase featuring turned balusters, a moulded rail, square panelled newels, moulded risers, and a moulded open string, along with a fielded panel dado. The south-east room is adorned with ovolo moulded panelling. For approximately 200 years, this house served as the residence of the Bishops of Peterborough, who were also rectors of Castor.
Local climate
Castor House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
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- 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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