Windmill Florists (incorporating 2 Hole-in-the-Wall Street) is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 May 1968. House. 1 related planning application.

Windmill Florists (incorporating 2 Hole-in-the-Wall Street)

WRENN ID
secret-shingle-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 May 1968
Type
House
Address
Windmill Florists (incorporating 2 Hole-in-the-Wall Street), 42 High Street, Walled Town, Caernarfon, LL55 1RH
OS grid reference
SH 478 628
Coordinates
53.14071, -4.27551
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Windmill Florists, which incorporates 2 Hole-in-the-Wall Street, is a tall, narrow, three-storey, single-bay shop and house built in an eclectic Victorian classical style. It features painted roughcast walls and a hipped slate roof with projecting dentilled eaves, along with two roughcast stacks on the right side. The mid-19th century shop front is adorned with Greek Doric columns and a deep cornice with mutules, although these are concealed behind a late 20th-century fascia.

To the left of the shop front, accessed by stone steps, is a half-lit panelled door with a plain overlight. To the right, there is a plate glass shop window set in its original opening, with plate glass replacing the stall board and bars over a cellar window below. The middle storey features a late 19th-century Art Nouveau cast iron balcony in front of a window that has an architrave and pediment supported by consoles. This window is a tall two-light casement with marginal glazing bars. The upper storey window also has a similar pedimented architrave and a replaced two-light casement.

On the left side wall, which faces Hole-in-the-Wall Street, there is a fielded panel door located to the left of centre, framed by an architrave and topped with a boarded-up overlight. All the windows on this side wall have architraves with corbelled sills and are offset to the left. The side wall includes a single replaced lower-storey window, two windows in the middle storey, a single window in the upper storey, and a small attic window at the centre. The rear wall is finished with slate hanging.

Local climate

Windmill Florists (incorporating 2 Hole-in-the-Wall Street) 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
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
  • 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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