8 Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 February 1991. House. 1 related planning application.
8 Castle Street
- WRENN ID
- sunken-baluster-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1991
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8 Castle Street, Usk, NP15 1BU
- OS grid reference
- SO 378 009
- Coordinates
- 51.70408, -2.90048
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a small Georgian house located at 8 Castle Street, built in the 18th century. The building has two storeys and features a three-window arrangement, with a blind recess in the center. It is covered in cement render and painted, topped with a slate roof that lacks verges and has narrow brick stacks at each end. The windows are 12-pane sashes with thin glazing bars set in plain reveals, and there are painted sills and a plinth. The central doorway is arched and has a six-panelled door, with glazed upper lights.
Local climate
8 Castle Street receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 2009
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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