Remains of Plymouth Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1954. Castle remnants.
Remains of Plymouth Castle
- WRENN ID
- late-corner-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1954
- Type
- Castle remnants
- Address
- Remains of Plymouth Castle, Lambhay Street, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 482 539
- Coordinates
- 50.36588, -4.13453
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The remains of Plymouth Castle are located on Lambhay Street in the Barbican area of Plymouth. These remnants are likely from the 14th or 15th century and consist of a rubble wall approximately 3 meters high, built on bedrock. The structure features a short length of very thick wall with a central semicircular projection, which is the remains of the right-hand flanking turret of the west gatehouse. The site is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Remains of Plymouth Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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