Police Station, including forecourt railings and gate piers is a Grade I listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 October 1953. Police station.
Police Station, including forecourt railings and gate piers
- WRENN ID
- silver-alcove-elm
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1953
- Type
- Police station
- Address
- Police Station, including forecourt railings and gate piers, Walled Town, Caernarfon
- OS grid reference
- SH 477 626
- Coordinates
- 53.1396, -4.27819
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The building is a police station, designed in a Neo-classical style, featuring three bays and three storeys, constructed from ashlar stone. It has angle pilaster strips and a slate roof that is hidden behind a low coped parapet on a moulded cornice, with panelled stone stacks at either end. The central bay, which is advanced and rusticated on the lower storey, includes a doorway set back in an arched recess with double panelled doors. The ground-floor windows on either side are also set back in arched recesses. The windows on the lower and middle storeys are 12-pane hornless sashes, with the central window in the middle storey featuring a segmental pediment, while the outer windows have triangular pediments. The upper storey contains 6-pane hornless sash windows beneath hood moulds, and the central pediment has a dated tablet.
The left gable end of the building is integrated into the Town Wall and is made of rubble stone with a coped gable and freestone dressings. The lower storey features two small-pane windows from the late 19th century under shouldered lintels. Below the left-hand window, there is the jamb and part of the arch of a blocked medieval postern gate. In the middle storey, there is a sash window to the right with a single over two panes, while the upper left has a window with six over two panes.
The forecourt is enclosed by cast iron railings with anthemion finials, set on a dressed stone dwarf wall. Central stone steps lead up to the entrance, framed by square panelled gate piers with moulded caps.
Local climate
Police Station, including forecourt railings and gate piers 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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