HSBC Bank, including forecourt balustrade is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 May 1967. Bank. 10 related planning applications.
HSBC Bank, including forecourt balustrade
- WRENN ID
- silent-transept-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1967
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- HSBC Bank, including forecourt balustrade, 24 Castle Square, Caernarfon, LL55 2NB
- OS grid reference
- SH 479 626
- Coordinates
- 53.13937, -4.27385
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The HSBC Bank is a building constructed from Anglesey stone ashlar, featuring drafted stonework on the lower storey and a renewed slate roof with a moulded stone eaves cornice. It stands three storeys tall and has a three-window range, highlighted by a central portico supported by paired Tuscan columns. Above the portico is an entablature that holds a higher central panel, which is carved with the Prince of Wales feathers in relief, and there is a replaced door below. The windows on the lower storey have keyed rusticated segmental heads with blank tympana and replaced windows. The upper storeys are fitted with 12-pane hornless sash windows that have sill bands. The right gable end of the building is roughcast. Attached to the portico is a stone balustrade with end panelled piers topped with pyramidal caps, which encloses a forecourt. The interior has been modernised.
Local climate
HSBC Bank, including forecourt balustrade 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 — 10 applications
- 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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