42, Castle Road is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. House.
42, Castle Road
- WRENN ID
- fallen-rubble-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 42, Castle Road, City of Portsmouth
- OS grid reference
- SZ 640 992
- Coordinates
- 50.78968, -1.09264
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 42 Castle Road is a house built around 1820-1830. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and features a plain tile hipped roof with a central brick stack. The building has two storeys and two bays. The entrance bay on the left is recessed and contains a door with six moulded panels, framed by a doorcase with thin reeded pilasters and a flat hood supported by shaped brackets. To the right, in a projecting bay, there is a 15-pane pointed arch sash window with intersecting glazing bars at the top, set within a pointed brick-arched reveal. The first floor has two similar windows. The eaves are boxed. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
42, Castle Road receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% 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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