Entrance Piers at the Minffordd Approach to Portmeirion is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 August 2002. Entrance piers.
Entrance Piers at the Minffordd Approach to Portmeirion
- WRENN ID
- seventh-pinnacle-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 August 2002
- Type
- Entrance piers
- Address
- Entrance Piers at the Minffordd Approach to Portmeirion, Penrhyndeudraeth
- OS grid reference
- SH 596 384
- Coordinates
- 52.9248, -4.08937
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The entrance piers at the Minffordd Approach to Portmeirion are a pair of structures made from whitened cement blocks arranged in three diminishing stages, featuring stopped-chamfered edges and resting on square plinth bases. Each pier is topped with a square vase made of reconstituted stone, which has figurative relief decoration on its sides.
Local climate
Entrance Piers at the Minffordd Approach to Portmeirion 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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