Castle Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1963. House. 7 related planning applications.
Castle Hill House
- WRENN ID
- dusted-pinnacle-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- Castle Hill House, Nether Stowey, TA5 1NA
- OS grid reference
- ST 188 396
- Coordinates
- 51.15019, -3.16126
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Hill House is a house dating back to the 17th century, which was significantly altered in the 18th century with later modifications. It is constructed of random rubble, with brickwork visible on the left return. The house has a moulded wooden cornice, a rendered parapet with a plain coping, and a hipped slate roof to the main front elevation. The rear wing features a double span roof covered in slate and pantile, with brick stacks, the centre stack being the largest.
The two-storey, four-bay facade features virtually flush-mounted 12-pane sash windows with rendered lintels. Some dressed stone remains on the window jambs, likely remnants of earlier window openings incorporated into the current facade. Relieving arches are positioned above the left two ground floor openings. A six-panelled door, the top two panels glazed, is set within a wooden doorcase featuring a triangular pediment supported by engaged three-quarter Tuscan columns.
Inside, there are some original wooden shutters, a fireplace in the left ground floor room with a substantial wooden bressumer, and 18th-century doors and chair railings. A single-storey outshut to the left of the front is not of particular interest.
Local climate
Castle Hill House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% 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 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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