The Castle House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. Former hotel. 3 related planning applications.
The Castle House
- WRENN ID
- dark-chimney-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- Former hotel
- Address
- The Castle House, Long Street, Sherborne, DT9 3BU
- OS grid reference
- ST 639 165
- Coordinates
- 50.94706, -2.51466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Castle House, formerly known as the Castle Hotel, is located on Long Street and dates back to 1625. This two-storey building features three window bays and has a plaintile gabled roof with a coursed rubble front. On the first floor, there are three-light sash windows at both ends and a single sash window in the center. The ground floor has, from left to right, a three-light sash window, two sash windows, and a carriage entrance at the right end. A stone tablet between the second and third windows on the first floor reads "The Castle Inn 1800." Part of the rear wing is of a similar age. The Castle House is part of a group that includes Rose Cottage, The Bank House, the premises occupied by The National Westminster Bank, Old Bank House, and Abbot's Litten, along with a timber-framed structure behind No 87 Cheap Street.
Local climate
The Castle House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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