Former The Castle Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1959. A C17 Inn.
Former The Castle Inn
- WRENN ID
- inner-cobalt-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1959
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Former The Castle Inn, Riverside House, 2 North Station Road, CO1 1RB
- OS grid reference
- TL 993 256
- Coordinates
- 51.89403, 0.89573
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Castle Inn, now known as Riverside House, is a building dating from the 17th century, with significant alterations made in the 18th century. It is situated in a picturesque location on the north bank of the river, west of North Bridge. The structure has two storeys and attics, with tiled roofs featuring two gables at the front. There is one oriel bay window from the 18th or 19th century on the river side, and another facing east.
Local climate
Former The Castle Inn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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