Former Carnarvon Grammar and Collegiate School, including gate, gate pier, and basement steps is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 July 1981. Former school. 1 related planning application.
Former Carnarvon Grammar and Collegiate School, including gate, gate pier, and basement steps
- WRENN ID
- spare-iron-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1981
- Type
- Former school
- Address
- Former Carnarvon Grammar and Collegiate School, including gate, gate pier, and basement steps, South Road, Caernarfon, LL55 2HP
- OS grid reference
- SH 482 623
- Coordinates
- 53.13651, -4.27016
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former Carnarvon Grammar and Collegiate School is a Tudor-Gothic style building, constructed as a single storey with a basement. The walls are made of rubble stone with freestone dressings, and many of the openings have been blocked with brick. The steep roof, covered with graded slates, rests on a plain corbel table and features apex ball finials on the gables, supported by moulded kneelers. Each slope of the roof includes two raked vents with louvres positioned below the ridge. At the rear, there is a tall coursed stone chimney stack rising from the eaves.
The main entrance is located on the north side, facing Love Lane. To the right of the entrance, there is a dressed stone porch with a stepped gable, also supported by moulded kneelers and topped with an apex ball finial. The porch roof is missing, and it features a Tudor arch that leads to a blocked doorway. To the left of the porch, there are two narrow loop windows. The left gable end, which faces the road, has a stepped three-light mullioned and transomed window, now infilled with slate, and a former wooden notice board above the center light. The rear of the building has transomed windows on both the right and left sides, with the basement constructed from large coursed stone blocks. The right gable end, which overlooks the Seiont, is roughcast over brick and has a stepped mullioned and transomed window similar to the left gable end, but retains lozenge and hexagon-pattern iron glazing bars above the transom. The basement features a doorway on the left and a segmental-headed window on the right.
At the entrance to the porch, facing Love Lane, there is an iron gate that is hinged on a single monolithic octagonal stone pier with a moulded cap. This pier is accompanied by simple railings on an L-plan dwarf wall to the right. Access to the basement is provided by quarter-turn stone steps with simple iron railings.
Local climate
Former Carnarvon Grammar and Collegiate School, including gate, gate pier, and basement steps 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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