The Castle is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. House. 6 related planning applications.
The Castle
- WRENN ID
- eastward-finial-heron
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Castle, Castle Corner, Beckington, BA11 6TA
- OS grid reference
- ST 799 515
- Coordinates
- 51.26232, -2.2881
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, originally built in the early 17th century and restored in the late 19th century. It has a rendered exterior, a stone slate roof, and three tall gables with copings and finials, with two similar gables to each return. There are ashlar stacks with moulded caps. The house is tall and rectangular, with three storeys and attics. It features six-light stone mullioned windows on the first floor, three four-light openings on the second floor, and two-light openings in the attic. Each window has hollow moulded frames and segmental heads, with each light featuring a segmental head. The ground floor has reproduction six-light windows. Weathered strings run above the window heads, and all openings have leaded lights. A three-storey porch with a flat roof is on the left return, featuring a three-light mullioned window on the first and second floors. The porch has a door with a chamfered, four-centred stone surround, a plank door, and strap hinges.
Inside, the left ground floor room has a plaster ceiling with strapwork decoration. A dogleg staircase rises within, featuring splat balusters. A rubble wall, two metres high, encloses the forecourt. To the left are a pair of rubble and ashlar gate piers in a mock military style, and to the right a gateway with a reused, chamfered, four-centred head incorporating four foiled niches.
Local climate
The Castle receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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