The Castle Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Castle Hotel
- WRENN ID
- weathered-forge-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1986
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Castle Hotel, 1, Fore Street, Bradninch, EX5 4NN
- OS grid reference
- SS 999 040
- Coordinates
- 50.82689, -3.42132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Castle Hotel is a public house located on Fore Street in Bradninch, dating from around 1835 with some alterations made in the late 19th century. The building is finished in stucco and has a slate hipped roof, featuring a left-hand stack with a brick chimney. It stands three storeys tall and has a symmetrical front with three windows, which are set beneath slightly overhanging eaves and stone quoins.
The first and second floors have hornless sash windows, originally designed with six panes per sash, but now reduced to two panes. A central portico, dating from circa 1835, is supported by two debased Tuscan columns with pilasters and features a moulded canopy above a round-headed doorway with panelled reveals. The window architraves were added in the late 19th century or early 20th century; they are plain on the second floor and shouldered on the first and ground floors, complete with capitals and keystones. The original ground-floor sashes from 1835 were replaced with tripartite windows that include four small top lights, now with one pane in each main light. The Castle Hotel is an important feature of the townscape at the top of Fore Street.
Local climate
The Castle Hotel receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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