The Castle, Y Castell is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 August 1997. Post box.

The Castle, Y Castell

WRENN ID
burning-rood-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 August 1997
Type
Post box
Address
The Castle, Y Castell, Abergele
OS grid reference
SH 945 778
Coordinates
53.28693, -3.58312
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Castle, known as Y Castell, is a building constructed from limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and topped with a slate roof. It stands three storeys high and includes cellars. The facade facing Dundonald Avenue features four bays, with a central door that is partly glazed and has an overlight. The ground and first floors have 12-paned hornless sash windows, while the top floor has 9-paned sash windows. The right corner of the building is splayed and includes a pair of half-glazed doors beneath a lantern supported by a cast iron bracket, with a panel above displaying the name Y CASTELL against a red painted background. The elevation facing Pleasant Place has a similar design, consisting of seven bays above a chamfered plinth, with comparable windows and wedge lintels. This side has doors located in the fourth and sixth bays, with the door in the second bay replaced by a 12-pane sash window. The windows adjacent to the doors in the splayed corner have also been replaced. Buff brick stacks are present on the roof.

Local climate

The Castle, Y Castell sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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