Is Gaer, including terrace revetment walls is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 July 2000. Villa.

Is Gaer, including terrace revetment walls

WRENN ID
mired-shingle-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 July 2000
Type
Villa
Address
Is Gaer, including terrace revetment walls, Denbigh - Castle, Denbigh
OS grid reference
SJ 053 660
Coordinates
53.18274, -3.41833
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

These are a pair of semi-detached villas, part of a group of two. They were constructed of rough-dressed, snecked limestone with yellow sandstone dressings and quoins, featuring battered plinths and plain stringcourses, along with plain stone chimneys topped with slanted capping stones. The buildings have hipped slate roofs with tiled ridges, deep eaves, and verges.

Each villa is L-shaped, with entrances set back from the street and a two-storeyed, semi-octagonal bay projecting from the corner, corbelled out from the plinth. The main entrance is recessed within a central bay, accompanied by an adjacent angled return featuring a ground-floor window. Above this window is a triangular wooden oriel, supported by cusped braces and sheltered by an extension of the roof, with a smaller window above the entrance itself. The windows have plain glazing with tilting casement sections and original four-panel part-glazed doors.

The street-facing elevations are symmetrical, displaying paired windows in the central bays, flanked by turret-like corner bays. The first-floor windows in the central bays rise above the eaves and incorporate higher hipped roofs. The villa situated downhill (Y Bryn) has an additional three-light, flat-roofed dormer window, designed to offer views over the Vale of Clwyd. Both units remain largely unaltered, with the exception of Y Bryn, which has a more modern picture window to the left of the entrance bay.

Each villa has a terraced area in front, with a battered stone retaining wall and railings, and stepped access leading up from the street.

Local climate

Is Gaer, including terrace revetment walls sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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