Nos. 5, 5a and 5b Castle Hill Road is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. Office.
Nos. 5, 5a and 5b Castle Hill Road
- WRENN ID
- patient-pediment-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Office
- OS grid reference
- TR 322 415
- Coordinates
- 51.12648, 1.31721
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 5, 5a, and 5b Castle Hill Road were built around 1868 as an annex to Castle Hill House by Wollaston Knocker, who was the owner of Castle Hill House and served as town clerk.
The building is constructed of yellow brick with red brick voussoirs and features a slate roof that is concealed under a parapet on the north-east side. It is two storeys high and consists of four bays with a side entrance.
The north-east entrance front of no. 5 includes a parapet and a plain band between the floors. The sash windows have horns and only vertical glazing bars. At the southern end, there is a two-storey, one-bay 18th-century section that features a first-floor six-over-six sash window with red brick voussoirs, along with a ground-floor entrance that has a bracket cornice, reeded pilasters, and panelled reveals. The south-west side of the building has sash windows with verticals only on the first and second floors.
Inside no. 5, there is a straight flight staircase with moulded balusters and a turned newel post. One window on the first floor rear elevation retains wooden shutters similar to those found at no. 7. The basement contains a barrel-vaulted strong room measuring approximately 15 by 12 feet, which has a six-inch thick locking iron door. At the far end of this strong room, there is a blocked tunnel that leads to the air raid shelter room of Castle Hill House.
Local climate
Nos. 5, 5a and 5b Castle Hill Road receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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