Hornets Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 November 1986. House.
Hornets Castle
- WRENN ID
- gilded-cellar-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 November 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hornets Castle, Widecombe in the Moor, Teignbridge
- OS grid reference
- SX 679 748
- Coordinates
- 50.55869, -3.86584
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hornets Castle is a house dating from the early to mid 19th century, featuring a lean-to addition on the south-west side. It is constructed of granite rubble and has a hipped, thatched roof, while the lean-to has a slated roof. A large granite chimneystack is located against the north-east wall. The original house is designed with one room width and two rooms depth, and it stands two storeys tall. Each gable wall has two pointed-arched windows, one on each storey, with well-cut voussoirs and 19th-century wood casements. The south-east end of the lean-to includes a 20th-century door to the right and a two-light wood-mullioned window to the left. Above this, on the second storey, there is a blocked window with a pointed arch, similar to those found in the main house.
Local climate
Hornets Castle 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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