Castle Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1950. House. 1 related planning application.
Castle Hill House
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-pedestal-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Castle Hill House, Axminster, EX13 5QF
- OS grid reference
- SY 297 986
- Coordinates
- 50.78349, -2.9979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Hill House is a late 18th-century stone house. The front is rendered and features rusticated quoins and a modillion eaves cornice. The steeply pitched roof is covered in Welsh slate with stone-coped gable ends. The house is two storeys and has an attic. There are three bays across the front. It has tripartite sash windows with glazing bars, including a central first-floor Venetian window. The ground floor features semi-circular bays, and a central Doric doorcase with fluted columns, an entablature, a segmental fanlight, a small pediment, and a moulded architrave. There are three dormers, the central one having a round top light with intersecting glazing bars.
The left-hand (north-west) end of the house has a two-storey segmental bay window. A contemporary wing extends to the rear and incorporates a segmental bay window.
Inside, a contemporary open-well staircase has stick balusters and a curved handrail ramped up to column newels. The stairwell ceiling is fitted with a modillion cornice and a frieze with consoles.
Local climate
Castle Hill House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 7 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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