Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1984. House.
Castle
- WRENN ID
- weathered-cinder-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Castle, Castle Lane, Wiveliscombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 096 280
- Coordinates
- 51.04509, -3.29083
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle, a house from the 18th century that incorporates earlier work and has 19th-century additions. It features a rendered exterior with a slate roof, decorated bargeboards, and a finial on the gable, along with brick stacks. The building has a "T"-plan with a cross gable on the main facade and is two and a half to three storeys high, with three bays on one side and one bay on the other. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, and there is a tripartite segmental-headed window on the ground floor to the right. A French window opens onto a balcony of the porch, which has a late 19th-century design with paired pilasters, a frieze, and cast iron railings above. The glazed door to the porch is now blocked, located in the center left. The entrance is on the left return elevation through a 20th-century conservatory. A wooden bell-cote with a weather-vane is situated on the roof ridge to the left. The interior has not been seen but is reputed to contain a pointed arch stone doorframe with chamfered moulding and an 18th-century staircase.
Local climate
Castle receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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