Steps, Piers and Associated Cobbled Pavement Descending From Ladies Lodge to the Hercules Statue is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 August 2002. Steps, monument.
Steps, Piers and Associated Cobbled Pavement Descending From Ladies Lodge to the Hercules Statue
- WRENN ID
- moated-loggia-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 August 2002
- Type
- Steps, monument
- Address
- Steps, Piers and Associated Cobbled Pavement Descending From Ladies Lodge to the Hercules Statue, Portmeirion, Penrhyndeudraeth
- OS grid reference
- SH 589 371
- Coordinates
- 52.91336, -4.09863
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
A flight of nine steps leads down from the main village lane to the Hercules monument, located directly opposite the Statue of Buddha. At the top of the steps, there are tall rendered piers topped with stone ball finials, along with short sections of turned balustrade that end in squat inner piers, which are also topped with stone urns. At the bottom of the steps, a decorative random-cobbled pavement continues downward, connecting from the southeast with a similar pavement that descends from the arch between Ladies Lodge and the Round House. Halfway down the pavement, near the Gothick Pavilion, there is a large stone sculpture of a recumbent lion on a stone plinth, which features a dedicatory cartouche.
Local climate
Steps, Piers and Associated Cobbled Pavement Descending From Ladies Lodge to the Hercules Statue sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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