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
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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