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Dover's only Grade II* listed residential house, Castle Hill House was upgraded in September 2014 by the Secretary of State to Grade II* for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural interest: for its quality of composition, detailing, distinctive plan form and outstanding interior joinery, rococo plaster ceilings and marble fireplaces, of more than special interest;
* Intactness: little altered externally, except for the addition of an early C19 curved bay. Internally nine or ten rooms retain significant C18 or early C19 fittings;
* Historic interest: the home of numerous mayors and town clerks of Dover and the constituency home in the 1930s of John Jacob Astor, the newspaper proprietor;
* Rarity of type: it is the only large detached C18 house in Dover.

Both Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister (1937-1940) and Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister (1940-1945), stayed at Castle Hill House. There is a photograph of Margaret Thatcher, who also visited the house, talking to local striking miners with a megaphone leaning out of the first floor window.