Gatepiers and Overthrow linking Plas Brondanw with Brondanw Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 July 1990. Gate-piers.
Gatepiers and Overthrow linking Plas Brondanw with Brondanw Cottages
- WRENN ID
- peeling-rubblework-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1990
- Type
- Gate-piers
- Address
- Gatepiers and Overthrow linking Plas Brondanw with Brondanw Cottages, Llanfrothen, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 616 422
- Coordinates
- 52.9601, -4.06129
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The gatepiers and overthrow connecting Plas Brondanw with Brondanw Cottages are tall, square structures made of rubble, dating from the early 20th century. They feature small, swept-up flanking walls that enclose the courtyard from the terraced gardens. The piers are topped with cornices and slender urns. An elaborate wrought iron overthrow is present, although the gates are missing. There are semicircular-shaped steps leading up to the gatepiers.
Local climate
Gatepiers and Overthrow linking Plas Brondanw with Brondanw Cottages 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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