The Castle is a Grade I listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1952. A C11 Castle.

The Castle

WRENN ID
tired-gable-yarrow
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 August 1952
Type
Castle
Address
The Castle, Richmond
OS grid reference
NZ 171 007
Coordinates
54.40219, -1.73752
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Castle is a very fine 11th-century keep, accompanied by a contemporary curtain wall and later medieval additions.

Local climate

The Castle receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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