Castle Gift Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 1983. Shop. 1 related planning application.

Castle Gift Shop

WRENN ID
former-wattle-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 March 1983
Type
Shop
Address
Castle Gift Shop, 4 Castle Hill, Caernarfon, LL55 2PG
OS grid reference
SH 478 626
Coordinates
53.1392, -4.27545
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Castle Gift Shop is a 2-storey building featuring a three-sided front, situated against the revetment to Castle Square and adjacent to the rear wing of 37 Castle Square. The exterior is finished in scribed stucco, topped with a hipped slate roof that has wide bracketed eaves and a roughcast stack on the right side. The entrance is located on the left side of the left facet, featuring a panelled door with a small-pane overlight above it. To the right of the entrance is a replaced window set in an earlier opening. The central facet includes an inserted shop window. On the upper storey, there are hornless sash windows on the outer facets, each with 8 over 2 panes.

Local climate

Castle Gift Shop 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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