Revetment to terrace on W side of Castle Square is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 May 2002. Revetment. 3 related planning applications.
Revetment to terrace on W side of Castle Square
- WRENN ID
- salt-storey-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 3 May 2002
- Type
- Revetment
- Address
- Revetment to terrace on W side of Castle Square, Caernarfon
- OS grid reference
- SH 478 626
- Coordinates
- 53.13937, -4.27554
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The revetment to the terrace on the west side of Castle Square is a Grade II listed structure. It is made of coursed dressed stone and features a band of finer tooled stone that is two courses thick. The revetment, which faces Castle Hill, includes shallow intermediate buttresses and consists of two straight sections. The lower section contains public conveniences, which have three boarded doors. Above this, a parapet made of finer tooled stone projects on corbels and has a saddleback coping. The parapet ends on the northwest side with a broad rock-faced pier that faces Castle Ditch.
Local climate
Revetment to terrace on W side of Castle Square sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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