Castle House is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. House.
Castle House
- WRENN ID
- other-sandstone-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Castle House, High Street, Winkleigh
- OS grid reference
- SS 632 081
- Coordinates
- 50.85701, -3.94402
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle House is a small house located on Winkleigh High Street, dating from the early 18th century, with a 20th-century addition. The house features rendered cob walls and a gable-ended thatch roof, supported by two rendered brick gable-end stacks. It has a two-room plan, with each room being of equal size and heated by a fireplace at the gable end. The exterior is two storeys high and has a symmetrical front with two windows, featuring early 20th-century small-paned two-light casements. There is a central porch, also from the 20th century, that has a thatched roof and part-glazed doors. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Castle House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
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