Macsen Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 1983. Shop with dwelling. 1 related planning application.
Macsen Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- second-parapet-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1983
- Type
- Shop with dwelling
- Address
- Macsen Restaurant, 11 Castle Square, Caernarfon, LL55 2NF
- OS grid reference
- SH 479 627
- Coordinates
- 53.13976, -4.27485
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Macsen Restaurant is a shop with a dwelling above, forming part of a terrace. The building has three storeys and three bays, featuring a pebble-dashed front that is painted white, and a replaced slate roof with corbelled eaves. The lower storey dates from the late 20th century, but retains Italianate details from 1883 in the upper storeys. The middle storey includes a central four-pane sash window flanked by wider tripartite windows. Each window is framed by fluted architraves with segmental arches that form tympana; the outer tympana have painted inscriptions, while the central tympanum displays '1883' in raised letters. The upper storey features eared architraves around four-pane horned sashes. An arcaded frieze between the lintels in the upper storey is continuous with the adjacent building at No 10.
Local climate
Macsen Restaurant 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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- 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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