King Arthur's Castle Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1987. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.

King Arthur's Castle Hotel

WRENN ID
fallen-frieze-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 July 1987
Type
Hotel
Address
King Arthur's Castle Hotel, Tintagel, PL34 0DQ
OS grid reference
SX 053 890
Coordinates
50.66823, -4.7555
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

King Arthur's Castle Hotel is a large baronial Neo-Norman style hotel built in 1899 for The King Arthur's Castle Company Limited by Silvanus Trevail. It is situated in a prominent cliff top location overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. The building rises to four storeys and features a series of symmetrically arranged castellated towers that extend slightly from the main wall line. The exterior is finished in pebbledash, likely over brick and slate stone rubble walling, with slate roofs and parapets. The front has almost symmetrical arrangements of 20 sash windows, with top lights that include glazing bars.

The central range is marked by octagonal castellated corner towers and a central entrance that boasts a well-designed Neo-Norman porte cochere, which is also pebbledashed and features wide segmental arched openings on the front and sides. Each of the four corner towers is four storeys high, with square crenellated turrets and regular side elevations that contain 12 windows.

Inside, the hotel retains much of its original character, including an imposing open well stone staircase with iron balusters and a mahogany rail. The lounge features a double three-bay colonnade made of polished Devonian limestone columns resting on carved freestone bases. There are also late 19th-century polychromatic chimney-pieces, complete with tiles and cast iron stoves, including a chimney-piece in the bar that is dated 1899.

Local climate

King Arthur's Castle Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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