Castle Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. Hotel. 3 related planning applications.
Castle Hotel
- WRENN ID
- sheer-rafter-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Castle Hotel, Castle Green, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 226 245
- Coordinates
- 51.01546, -3.10377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Castle Hotel, originally facing North Street, has a frontage on Castle Green that was once known as Clarke's Hotel. The main stone front, likely built in the late 18th century, features a bowed crenellated wing at the north end. The upper storey is a 20th-century addition. The building is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings and includes stringcourses. It has 2 and 3-light windows with mullions and transoms, and leaded casements. The north wing and Castle Bow have pointed sash windows with 'Gothic' glazing bars. The central range of seven windows is said to have had similar window styles. A projecting porch with a crenellated parapet sits on an entablature supported by four octagonal shafts, leading to double wooden doors at the entrance. The listed buildings on Castle Green, including Ina Cottage on Mill Lane, form a cohesive group.
Local climate
Castle Hotel receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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