Hastings Castle is a Grade I listed building in the Hastings local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1951. A C11 and C13 Castle.
Hastings Castle
- WRENN ID
- moated-bronze-russet
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Hastings
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1951
- Type
- Castle
- Address
- Hastings Castle, Castle Hill
- OS grid reference
- TQ 820 094
- Coordinates
- 50.8562, 0.58487
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hastings Castle, built around 1070, consists of the ruins of the collegiate Church of St Mary and the North and East curtain walls, including the East gate and bastions. The church construction began before 1094, with additional building work occurring in the early 1170s to 1190s, including the keep built in 1172. Repairs were made in 1216, but the structure has since fallen into progressive ruin. The walls are made of stone rubble, and currently, there are ruined walls and foundations of the church, which originally featured a central tower; the western arch of this tower has been rebuilt. A square tower remains at the west end of the nave. The North, North-west, and North-east curtain walls still stand, with a gatehouse on the North-east side that includes two rounded towers. Outside the walls on the north side are store-rooms, known as the Dungeons, which consist of narrow tunnel-vaulted passages. The keep and other buildings no longer exist.
Local climate
Hastings Castle receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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