Castle Tearooms is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. Cottage, lookout tower. 1 related planning application.
Castle Tearooms
- WRENN ID
- stranded-corner-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage, lookout tower
- Address
- Castle Tearooms, Dartmouth, TQ6 0JN
- OS grid reference
- SX 886 502
- Coordinates
- 50.3419, -3.56585
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Tearooms is a cottage and lookout tower, now serving as tearooms, dated 1856 with a mid-20th century extension. It features painted stone rubble and a flat roof. The building has a small one-room plan with the lookout tower located to the south. The exterior is two storeys tall and built in a castellated style. The 20th-century extension is positioned in front of the original doorway, which has been widened for the tearooms. This side has no windows, while the other sides have relatively small openings fitted with 20th-century casements that include glazing bars, except for the lookout tower, which has a segmental arch over a sash window without glazing bars. The castellated parapet projects on a corbel course, stepping up to a higher level on the southern side where the lookout tower rises, also featuring an embattled parapet. The interior has not been inspected. The building is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Castle Tearooms receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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