17 New Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 August 1975. Gate lodge.
17 New Castle Street
- WRENN ID
- hollow-lead-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1975
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- 17 New Castle Street, Town
- OS grid reference
- SO 050 063
- Coordinates
- 51.74778, -3.37682
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a two-storey house located at 17 New Castle Street, featuring a two-window stucco front and a tiled roof. On the first floor, there are two windows that imitate sash windows. The ground floor includes a window that imitates a tripartite sash, and there is a round-headed doorway positioned to the right. The doorway is flanked by plain stucco pilasters and has a moulded archivolt, topped with a semi-circular fanlight. The door itself has two tall round-headed panels.
Local climate
17 New Castle Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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