4 Castle Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 January 1963. House.

4 Castle Hill

WRENN ID
rooted-trefoil-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 January 1963
Type
House
Address
4 Castle Hill, St Fagans, St. Fagans
OS grid reference
ST 120 770
Coordinates
51.48589, -3.26875
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Nos. 3 and 4 Castle Hill are a pair of houses with distinct architectural features, dating from the 18th century. They have lower eaves and ridge levels compared to Nos. 1 and 2. The walls are made of local rubblestone, with the front walls featuring red brick dressings and a colourwashed finish. Both houses have thatched roofs with eyebrow dormers and follow a two-storey, single-depth plan with small rear wings. Each house consists of two window bays flanking a central door bay.

In the front wall of each house, there is a door with a canopy on the right side, and to the left, a two-light casement window above a three-light casement window below, both with diamond panes, a change made in the late 20th century. Each house also has a pair of diamond-set brick chimney stacks, likely added around 1855. The original rear walls remain, featuring small rectangular window openings, while the rear wings, which have slate roofs, were added in the mid to late 19th century.

The wall of No. 4 curves at the corner and includes a stone kneeler and coping at the gable end. The previous listing notes a blocked mullioned window in the rear wall and a ground-level window opening, but these were not observed during the recent survey. The interior was not inspected at that time, but earlier descriptions mention a possibly 16th-century stone doorway within No. 4.

Local climate

4 Castle Hill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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