Circular Enclosing Walls and Fountain at the N end at Plas Brondanw Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 May 1998. Garden feature.
Circular Enclosing Walls and Fountain at the N end at Plas Brondanw Gardens
- WRENN ID
- gentle-arch-fern
- 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
- Garden feature
- Address
- Circular Enclosing Walls and Fountain at the N end at Plas Brondanw Gardens, Llanfrothen, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 616 423
- Coordinates
- 52.96073, -4.061
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The circular enclosing walls and fountain at the north end of Plas Brondanw Gardens are constructed from slate-coped rubble and create a grassed area approximately 12 meters in diameter. The walls are built in two stages and reach an overall height of about 1.5 meters. At the south end, the walls slope upwards on either side of a pair of square rubble gatepiers topped with reconstituted stone capping that has been reused. At the north end, there is a segmental niche featuring a lion's head wall fountain, made from similar materials. Steps curve up on either side to a platform above the fountain, where a contemporary tiled flower trough sits atop the wall. A tall beech hedge is planted on the west side of the wall.
Next to the southwest gatepier, there is a section of plain iron railings, approximately 4 meters wide, which includes a central gate. The railings feature intersecting lozenge decoration and pendant motifs, with a scrolled overthrow at the center, designed in three stages.
Local climate
Circular Enclosing Walls and Fountain at the N end at Plas Brondanw Gardens 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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