The Castle Inn Public House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Public house.
The Castle Inn Public House
- WRENN ID
- tired-railing-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Castle Inn Public House, 15 and 17, Castle Square, Benson
- OS grid reference
- SU 617 917
- Coordinates
- 51.62114, -1.10956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Castle Inn Public House is an inn built in the late 17th century, with an early 18th-century front. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with red brick dressings and features a plain-tile roof with brick stacks. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a seven-window range.
To the right of the centre, there is a six-panel part-glazed double door with a fanlight, framed by a painted wood surround of Doric pilasters that support brackets and an open pediment. To the left of the centre, there is another six-panel door with a moulded wood surround and an open pediment. The ground floor has 16-pane unhorned sash windows, while the first floor features seven 12-pane unhorned sash windows. A flat brick band runs between the ground and first floors, and the eaves are shaped wooden. The roof has four gabled dormers, each with two-light casements. There is an end stack to the right and a stack at the rear. The interior has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Local climate
The Castle Inn Public House 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1995
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