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
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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