Old Castle Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1952. Inn. 2 related planning applications.

Old Castle Inn

WRENN ID
ancient-porch-lichen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 February 1952
Type
Inn
Address
Old Castle Inn, Old Castle Road, Salisbury, SP1 3SF
OS grid reference
SU 141 324
Coordinates
51.09157, -1.79941
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Castle Inn, located on Old Castle Road, is a building dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, believed to be on a much earlier site associated with Old Sarum. The structure features a range of one and two storeys, adapted to a sloping site. Its construction includes flint and stone rubble with some brickwork, and the southern part retains a chamfered stone base. The northern part is a rendered single storey. The building has an old tile roof with gable ends.

The windows are irregular casements, some of which are leaded with thin mullions, along with one sash and wooden casements at the single storey north end. There are brick and flint gabled porches, as well as a rendered one to the north. The west front is a later 18th or 19th-century addition that doubles the original structure, featuring painted brickwork. To the left, there is a large projecting canted end bay that may have been an open porch on the ground floor but is now enclosed with paired and single sash lights. The first floor has a tripartite sash window and a single sash window flanking the canted bay, which has a hipped tiled roof. The ground floor has altered windows and doors in rectangular bays, but one window still retains its glazing bars and panelled shutters.

There is a single storey extension to the north with a weatherboarded gable end and rendered facing, featuring three two-light casements. It is believed that a 12th-century inn once existed on this site in connection with Old Sarum. The interior of the building retains some exposed beams.

Local climate

Old 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 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 2010
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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