The Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. House, outbuildings.
The Castle
- WRENN ID
- pitched-lead-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- House, outbuildings
- Address
- The Castle, Hitcham Road, Wattisham
- OS grid reference
- TM 009 519
- Coordinates
- 52.1296, 0.93419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Castle is a building dating from the 18th to 19th century, designed in the style of a castle fortification. It features a quadrangular layout that includes the main house and outbuildings, all with castellated stuccoed walls. The house is located in the south-west part of the complex and includes a two-storey circular angle tower and a three-storey projecting circular turret topped with an octagonal slate roof. To the north, there is a two-storey circular turret that serves as the entrance to the barn, and beyond this is a "Gothic" window with four lights and brick tracery. The east side has larger blocked windows with interlacing tracery, which screen the other outbuildings. The roofs are covered with slate and pantiles, set behind embattled parapets.
Local climate
The Castle 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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