Palace Cafe 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.
Palace Cafe
- WRENN ID
- winding-turret-fern
- 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
- Palace Cafe, 23 Palace Street, Walled Town, Caernarfon, LL55 1RR
- OS grid reference
- SH 478 627
- Coordinates
- 53.1398, -4.2759
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Palace Cafe is a Georgian style, three-storey, three-bay shop with a dwelling above, featuring a faceted front elevation that faces the castle. The building has scribed roughcast walls and a hipped slate roof with a roughcast stack on the left side. The lower storey includes a central doorway set in a rusticated surround, which has a replaced door. In the right-hand bay, there is a 12-pane horned sash window with a sill, also in a rusticated surround, while the left-hand bay is blank. Above the lower storey, there is a thin cornice followed by a much deeper moulded cornice that runs continuously around the left side wall. The middle storey features 12-pane hornless sash windows, and the upper storey has similar 9-pane sashes. On Palace Street, there is a similar single bay arrangement of single sash windows in the upper storeys, and the lower storey has a triple window of 2-pane sashes in rusticated surrounds. The right side wall, which faces Hole in the Wall Street, has a slate plaque displaying the street name and late 20th-century windows offset to the right.
Local climate
Palace Cafe 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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