Remains of Sheffield Castle Beneath Castle Market (1) is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1973. Castle remains. 1 related planning application.

Remains of Sheffield Castle Beneath Castle Market (1)

WRENN ID
frozen-stair-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sheffield
Constituency
Sheffield Central MP: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 June 1973
Type
Castle remains
Address
Remains of Sheffield Castle Beneath Castle Market (1), Exchange Street, S2 5TR
OS grid reference
SK 358 876
Coordinates
53.38452, -1.46308
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The remains of Sheffield Castle are located beneath Castle Market and date from the 13th and 14th centuries. They were excavated in 1927 and again from 1958 to 1960. The site features the lower part of an ashlar faced gateway, bastion towers, a drawbridge pit, and a pier. Access to the site was not possible at the time of the survey due to flooding.

Local climate

Remains of Sheffield Castle Beneath Castle Market (1) receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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