House at rear of Plas Porth yr Aur (2 High Street) is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 May 2002. House.

House at rear of Plas Porth yr Aur (2 High Street)

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 May 2002
Type
House
Address
House at rear of Plas Porth yr Aur (2 High Street), Walled Town, Caernarfon
OS grid reference
SH 477 628
Coordinates
53.14059, -4.27791
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a symmetrical two-storey house with three windows, located at the rear of Plas Porth yr Aur on High Street. The exterior is finished in painted roughcast, topped with a slate roof and featuring roughcast end stacks. The front includes a central panelled door and 16-pane sash windows. There is an office block attached to the rear of the house.

Local climate

House at rear of Plas Porth yr Aur (2 High 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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