Castle Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. Public house.

Castle Inn

WRENN ID
sharp-shingle-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 November 1959
Type
Public house
Address
Castle Inn, Main Road, West Lulworth, BH20 5RN
OS grid reference
SY 826 807
Coordinates
50.62643, -2.24603
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Castle Inn, originally a cottage attached to a public house, likely dates from the 18th century. It features plastered walls and a thatched roof with brick stacks. The building is two storeys high. The ground floor includes a part-glazed door set within a central thatched porch, along with one horizontally sliding sash window and one modern casement window, both of which have glazing bars. On the first floor, there is another horizontally sliding sash window with glazing bars and one modern window.

Local climate

Castle Inn receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% 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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