The Castle Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. Inn. 3 related planning applications.
The Castle Public House
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1984
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Castle Public House, High Street, West Coker, BA22 9AT
- OS grid reference
- ST 514 135
- Coordinates
- 50.91951, -2.69162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Castle Public House is an inn with origins dating back to the 17th century. It is constructed from local stone rubble with Ham stone dressings and features a thatched roof between coped gables, along with brick chimney stacks at the ends and in the middle. The building is single-storey with attics and has six bays.
In the first bay, there is a two-light hollow chamfered mullioned window with casements and a label. The second, fourth, and sixth bays have three-light casements with exposed timber lintels. The third bay features a boarded door set in a chamfered cambered arch with a stone slab porch, while the fifth bay has a boarded door with a moulded flat stone hood supported by stone corbels.
The upper windows consist of small three-light casements in the first, fourth, and sixth bays, which are set into the thatch. There is also a two-light chamfered mullioned window at the first-floor level. On the east gable, there is a hexagonal single-storey thatched extension with raked brick piers at the corners. The public rooms do not contain anything of significance, and the remainder of the building was not seen.
Local climate
The Castle Public House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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- 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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