L-shaped screen wall adjoining stables and workshops at west end of service drive to kitchen court is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 September 1998. Screen wall.

L-shaped screen wall adjoining stables and workshops at west end of service drive to kitchen court

WRENN ID
winding-shingle-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
8 September 1998
Type
Screen wall
OS grid reference
SH 455 554
Coordinates
53.07346, -4.30675
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The building is an L-shaped screen wall that connects to stables and workshops at the west end of the service drive leading to the kitchen court. One section of the wall, approximately 4 meters high, is made of rubble and extends north from the stable block. In the center, there is a semicircular archway featuring slate voussoirs, stone coping, and pilasters. The walls on either side have coping made of vertically laid stones. To the right of the main archway, there is another archway that is blocked but likely originally provided access to a narrow service yard used for drying clothes.

The second section of the wall, which is of similar height and also made of rubble, turns at a right angle to create a screen wall that encloses a small area known as the 'ante-yard.' This area is located at the west end of a track that ascended to accommodation at the west end of the kitchen court behind the house. At its western end, this wall connects to the south-east corner of the workshops. To the left, there is another semicircular archway, which differs from the first as it is not dressed and features rubble voussoirs instead of slate. This archway is topped with large cast-iron urn finials. Neither of the archways has gates.

Local climate

L-shaped screen wall adjoining stables and workshops at west end of service drive to kitchen court sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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