The Castle Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Inn. 7 related planning applications.
The Castle Inn
- WRENN ID
- nether-bronze-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Castle Inn, Church Hill, St. Nicholas, Hurst, RG10 0SJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 795 729
- Coordinates
- 51.45024, -0.85663
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Castle Inn is an inn that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 18th century and later. It features a rear outshut and is constructed with a timber frame, roughcast, and colourwashed exterior. The roof is made of old tiles and has a large chimney located south of the center, which has a cluster of six rectangular shafts. The building has two storeys.
The west front includes a hipped section on the right that was refronted in the 18th century. It has one large upper window that is a four-pane sash, and on the ground floor, there are three coupled sashes along with a half-glazed door on the right. The main part of the west front consists of five bays, with the first, second, and fourth upper windows from the left being flat angular bays set on cills, featuring glazing bars. The third and fifth upper windows are early 19th-century two-light casements. The ground floor has four bays with three-light sash windows that also have glazing bars, and there is a six-panelled door in the third bay from the left, which is sheltered by a flat hood supported by wrought iron brackets. The upper room of the west front was formerly used for wakes and overlooks the old bowling green, which is still in use. Inside, much of the timber frame is visible.
Local climate
The Castle Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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