17 Lower Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 November 2005. Terraced house.
17 Lower Castle Street
- WRENN ID
- fallen-pillar-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 November 2005
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- 17 Lower Castle Street, Abergavenny
- OS grid reference
- SO 299 140
- Coordinates
- 51.82072, -3.0179
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
17 Lower Castle Street is part of a group of buildings at Nos. 17-21 Castle Street, constructed with roughcast render and painted finishes, topped with natural slate roofs, ridge tiles, and red brick stacks. The building has a double depth plan with entrances on the right side, except for No. 19. It stands three storeys tall with a basement and has a narrow single bay width.
The ground floor features an 8 over 8 pane sash window with a slightly cambered head, alongside a six-panel door, although No. 21 has an overlight above its door. The basement includes a small, mostly concealed window. The first floor window matches the ground floor, while the second floor has a 4 over 8 pane sash window. The roof is plain with a gable ridge stack that is shared with Nos. 19 and 21.
There is a replacement panelled door, and the rear elevation has not been inspected. The interior was also not inspected during the resurvey.
Local climate
17 Lower Castle Street receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% 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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