Castle Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
Castle Hotel
- WRENN ID
- plain-screen-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Castle Hotel, 5, High Street, Dunster, Somerset, TA24 6SF
- OS grid reference
- SS 991 437
- Coordinates
- 51.18362, -3.44422
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Castle Hotel is a late 18th century building located on the west side of Dunster High Street. It features a rough-cast exterior and a slate roof with four hipped casement dormers. The structure has two storeys plus attics and includes seven sash windows with glazing bars and cambered head openings. The central entrance consists of a recessed panelled door topped with a wooden open pediment supported by brackets and pilasters. Additional architectural details include a plinth, a first-floor band, and end pilasters. To the right, there is a contiguous two-storey wing with a slightly higher roof level and one dormer. This wing also has a wide cambered-headed archway and a square three-light oriel window with 19th century sashes on the first floor.
Local climate
Castle Hotel 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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