The Castle, Forecourt Wall, Railings and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Estate house.

The Castle, Forecourt Wall, Railings and Gate Piers

WRENN ID
fossil-roof-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 November 1984
Type
Estate house
Address
The Castle, Forecourt Wall, Railings and Gate Piers, Buckland Dinham
OS grid reference
ST 764 500
Coordinates
51.24874, -2.33929
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Castle is an estate house built in the early 19th century. It features coursed and squared rubble with a cross-gabled slate roof, complete with coped verges and onion finials. The building has a Tudoresque style with two storeys and a projecting gabled bay at the front. The windows are casements with glazing bars set in 2-light stone mullioned windows, each topped with stopped labels and a trefoil head for each light. There is a single light opening on each side of the bay. To the left side, there is a door opening in a two-storey gabled wing, which includes a 2-light stone mullioned window on the first floor, and below it, a plank door framed by a moulded stone surround and topped with a semi-circular stone hood supported by cut stone brackets. The forecourt is enclosed by cast iron railings with undulating heads on a low chamfered stone plinth. There are ashlar piers on either side with pyramidal caps, and a coursed and squared rubble wall with a dressed coping that extends 11 metres on each side.

Local climate

The Castle, Forecourt Wall, Railings and Gate Piers receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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