7 Castle Square is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 May 1968. Shops with dwellings. 2 related planning applications.
7 Castle Square
- WRENN ID
- sunken-pinnacle-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1968
- Type
- Shops with dwellings
- Address
- 7 Castle Square, Caernarfon, LL55 2NF
- OS grid reference
- SH 479 627
- Coordinates
- 53.13978, -4.27518
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
7-8 Castle Square is a pair of shops with dwellings above, forming part of a terrace. The buildings are three storeys high and each has a single bay. The front is finished in scribed roughcast, and the roofs are made of slate with brick end stacks. Number 7 has a replaced slate roof on a dentilled eaves cornice, while Number 8 retains a graded slate roof on a moulded cornice. The original three-bay structure is still visible in the middle and upper storeys. The central bay of the original building has blocked windows with chamfered reveals that span both properties. The right-hand bay (Number 8) features horned sash windows in chamfered surrounds, with 12 panes in the middle storey and 9 panes in the upper storey. In the left-hand bay (Number 7), there are recently inserted tripartite 4-pane sash windows on each storey. Number 8 retains elements of an early 20th-century shop front, including panelled pilasters and fascia end panels, although the lower storey has been remodelled with a late 20th-century shop front. Number 7 also has a late 20th-century shop front on the lower storey.
Local climate
7 Castle Square 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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