Remains of Keep to Stowey Castle is a Grade I listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1963. Keep.
Remains of Keep to Stowey Castle
- WRENN ID
- mired-bronze-nettle
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1963
- Type
- Keep
- Address
- Remains of Keep to Stowey Castle, Castle Hill, Nether Stowey
- OS grid reference
- ST 186 395
- Coordinates
- 51.14963, -3.16392
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The remains of the keep at Stowey Castle date back to the 11th century. They consist of coursed blue lias rubble that forms the foundation walls of a square keep, with some sections buried. The remains are situated on a conical earthwork that features a ditch approximately 250 meters in circumference. The walling is the only visible structural remnant of the castle and is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 56).
Local climate
Remains of Keep to Stowey Castle receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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