Hop Castle is a Grade II* listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1978. Hunting lodge.
Hop Castle
- WRENN ID
- scarred-sentry-dawn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1978
- Type
- Hunting lodge
- Address
- Hop Castle, Winterbourne, Newbury, RG20 8BD
- OS grid reference
- SU 446 737
- Coordinates
- 51.46112, -1.35862
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hop Castle is a hunting lodge from the 18th century, now serving as a house. It is constructed of flint and bones with brick dressings, topped with an old tile hipped roof and a parapet featuring four corner piers and urns. The building has a square plan, is one storey high with a basement, and includes an octagonal room with an ogee roof that projects from the three-bay south front as a central canted bay. The south front has a central 20th-century window with a stone plaque above it, flanked by segmental headed glazing bar sashes with keystones. The north front features an arched doorway set in a central recessed bay. Inside, the walls and ceilings of the staircase hall and the vaulted octagonal room to the south are covered in flint, decorated with shell patterns and pictures.
Local climate
Hop Castle receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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