Castle Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 January 1950. Hotel. 28 related planning applications.
Castle Hotel
- WRENN ID
- still-gravel-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Windsor MP: Jack Rankin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 January 1950
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Castle Hotel, 18, High Street, SL4 1LJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 968 768
- Coordinates
- 51.4819, -0.60727
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Castle Hotel is a late 18th-century building that has been altered in the 19th century and modernized and enlarged. It features a long front of four storeys that is faced with stucco. Originally, it had an eleven-window front divided into two parts, with a three-storey south wing that included 17th-century timber framing. The front is now symmetrical, as the south wing has been demolished and replaced by a new five-window, four-storey stucco-faced block with an open ground floor for rear access.
The ground floor of the original part has horizontal grooving on the piers between the openings, topped with moulded caps. There is a moulded cornice at the second-floor level, along with a moulded string course above the second floor, and a crowning cornice and parapet that extend onto the new south block in a similar style. All the windows are segmental-headed, with the five on the new block designed to match. The first floor features French casements with cornices on console brackets that open onto a continuous balcony decorated with an anthemion and scroll pattern. The ground floor has five large modern windows and a modern door to the left of centre, set within a wide architrave surround that includes a frieze and cornice above.
The Castle Hotel is part of a group that includes Nos 1 to 4 (consecutive), 4a, 5 to 9 (consecutive), 9A, and 10 to 26 (consecutive), along with the Dairy Pavilion in the garden of No 7 and Mistress Pages House.
Local climate
Castle Hotel 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 28 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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