Castle House is a Grade II* listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 August 1953. Memorial. 1 related planning application.

Castle House

WRENN ID
sharp-cobble-yarrow
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 August 1953
Type
Memorial
Address
Castle House, 18 High Street, Walled Town, Caernarfon, LL55 1RN
OS grid reference
SH 477 628
Coordinates
53.14066, -4.27697
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Castle House is a Georgian three-storey, three-bay house and shop, featuring scribed roughcast walls and a hipped slate roof with moulded eaves. The High Street side showcases the original bay structure in the middle and upper storeys, with shallow full-height canted bays on the left and right, and a narrow window in the centre. These openings have been replaced with casement windows. Between the middle and upper storeys is a late 19th-century inscription in raised letters stating, "Estd 1735, Castle House." The lower storey is topped by a deep moulded cornice with a boarded soffit, added during the late 19th century when the building was converted into shops.

On the left side, there is a double shop window with wooden glazing bars and panelled pilasters. To the right of this window is a swinging cast iron crane. The central doorway features double panelled doors with panelled pilasters. Immediately to the right of this doorway is another entrance, accessed by stone steps, which has a panelled door and a small-pane overlight. The canted bay at the right end contains a 12-pane hornless sash window.

The Castle Street elevation has a single window that retains original openings in the middle and upper storeys. The first floor features a Palladian window with small-pane casements that have replaced earlier sashes, and similar windows above with painted outer frames. Between the middle and upper storeys is a late 19th-century inscription reading "RH Thomas." The lower-storey shop front includes panelled pilasters and a deep cornice over the fascia. A four-light shop window has thin wooden mullions, with the right-hand light splayed towards the recessed doorway. The stall board has been rendered, and the doorway features a half-lit panelled door with etched glass panels and a two-pane overlight.

Although not inspected, it is reported by RCAHM Wales that Castle House has a complex early 18th-century staircase with slender turned balusters, moulded only at the heads and feet, and columns of similar design supporting a four-bay landing arcade, with one spandrel and a capital being pendant. A first-floor room is noted to have "curious decoration."

Local climate

Castle House 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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