The Castle and Ball Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1949. A C17 Hotel. 11 related planning applications.
The Castle and Ball Hotel
- WRENN ID
- seventh-moat-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1949
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Castle and Ball Hotel, High Street, Marlborough, SN8 1LZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 187 690
- Coordinates
- 51.42029, -1.73213
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Castle and Ball Hotel is a 17th-century building that has been modernised. It stands three storeys tall with a triple gabled front that features plain tiles and ball finials on the gables, which also have plain barge boards. The second floor has four windows, while the first floor has seven windows. The ground floor has a continuous line of large sash windows, with a panelled dado underneath and a door flanked to the right of centre. This area is covered by a wooden glazed roof supported by five 18th-century Doric columns. The Castle and Ball Hotel, along with Nos 112 to 116 and Nos 117 to 124, forms a group of buildings.
Local climate
The Castle and Ball Hotel 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 lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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