Former warehouse on Balaclava Road is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 May 2002. Warehouse.

Former warehouse on Balaclava Road

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
Warehouse
Address
Former warehouse on Balaclava Road, Victoria Dock, Caernarfon
OS grid reference
SH 479 630
Coordinates
53.14281, -4.27532
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a 2-storey former warehouse located on Balaclava Road, constructed from rubble granite with larger quoins and a renewed slate roof. At the time of inspection, many openings were boarded up. The south gable end facing Balaclava Road features cyclopean granite. It has central boarded double doors and a single half-lit door to the left, both with boarded-up overlights. To the left of the doors, there is a small inserted window, and to the right, another small window with brick jambs, a slate lintel, and a slate sill has been added between the storeys. The upper storey has a central window with a shallow 4-centred arch, flanked by camber-headed windows. All these wood-framed windows have brick dressings, with the outer windows also featuring slate sills.

The left side wall has six windows beneath the eaves, all with brick dressings. The right (east) side wall contains six openings, but only the left-hand window has brick dressings on its left side. The lower storey has seven doorways, with the right-hand doorway being narrower, all under wooden lintels that are obscured by a later fascia.

Local climate

Former warehouse on Balaclava Road 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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