Flight of Steps and adjoining Wall and Arched Gateway immediately N of Penstep is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 May 1998. House.

Flight of Steps and adjoining Wall and Arched Gateway immediately N of Penstep

WRENN ID
still-floor-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 May 1998
Type
House
OS grid reference
SH 616 422
Coordinates
52.9597, -4.06099
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This listing describes a long flight of slate-flagged steps that lead from Pen Parc down to Plas Brondanw. At the bottom of the steps, there are squat rubble flanking piers topped with ball finials made of reconstituted stone. To the left, there is a stepped-up rubble revettment wall that extends for about 20 meters, sloping up over an arched entrance with a shallow pediment. This entrance features a deeply-recessed decorative wrought-iron gate adorned with scroll-work and floral motifs, which includes the date 1908 on the lock-bar and the letter 'A' on the fanlight. The ironwork is painted in the distinctive Clough Williams-Ellis blue. The wall continues a short distance beyond the arch before ending at a masonry break.

Local climate

Flight of Steps and adjoining Wall and Arched Gateway immediately N of Penstep sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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