Arched Gate and adjoining Balustrade 200m NE of the New Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 May 1998. Architectural folly.
Arched Gate and adjoining Balustrade 200m NE of the New Lodge
- WRENN ID
- far-pediment-dawn
- 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
- Architectural folly
- OS grid reference
- SH 615 421
- Coordinates
- 52.95854, -4.06311
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The arched gate and adjoining balustrade, located 200 meters northeast of the New Lodge, is an architectural folly. It features a curved section of wall made from local rubble, which arcs convexly towards the road to the west. The wall rises in stages to a maximum height of approximately 2.2 meters at the round-headed arch, which includes a simple decorative wrought iron gate topped with a small crown motif. Above the wall's slate capping is a sandstone ball finial.
To the right, the wall steps down in four stages and curves again to connect with the balustrade. The balustrade, made of reused 19th-century sandstone, is about 2.5 meters long and features turned balusters and a moulded rail between square piers, which have lozenge decoration on the main faces. Beneath the balustrade, there is a culvert that carries excess water from the waterfall below the road. In front of the structure, there is a section of cobbled pavement, with a partly-cobbled path leading to the neighboring arch on the left.
Local climate
Arched Gate and adjoining Balustrade 200m NE of the New Lodge 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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