Donnington Castle House is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. House. 6 related planning applications.
Donnington Castle House
- WRENN ID
- low-rood-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Donnington Castle House, Castle Lane, Shaw Cum Donnington, RG14 2LE
- OS grid reference
- SU 463 690
- Coordinates
- 51.41894, -1.33556
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Donnington Castle House is a 17th century building with later additions. The house features carved brick from 1648 on the south front, constructed from red brick with a stone door surround and an old tile roof. It has two end stacks, with diamond shafts that have rectangular bases and oversailing tops; there are two stacks to the left and three to the right. The house is two storeys tall with an attic and consists of seven bays, showcasing glazing bar sashes with segmental heads on both the ground and first floors. A stone-coped parapet and gabled dormers with ball finials are located over the second and sixth bays. The building has a plinth with a stone top and plat bands between the floors. The central doorway is adorned with an eared architrave and a bracketed triangular pediment. Inside, the left-hand front room on the ground floor features a stone fireplace with a depressed arch and carved spandrels.
Local climate
Donnington Castle House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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