3, Castle Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
3, Castle Hill
- WRENN ID
- knotted-bailey-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 3, Castle Hill, Dunster, Somerset, TA24 6SQ
- OS grid reference
- SS 991 436
- Coordinates
- 51.18311, -3.44386
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 3 Castle Hill is a small cottage dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed of rubble sandstone with a roughcast rendered front and features a pantile roof with a brick stack. The cottage has two storeys and includes three 3-light wooden casement windows, which have moulded mullions and frames with leaded lights. The entrance consists of a plain door set in a flat-headed opening. To the left, there is a single-storey lean-to.
Local climate
3, Castle Hill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% 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 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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