Revettment Walls and Circular Steps to Wall Fountain 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.
Revettment Walls and Circular Steps to Wall Fountain at Plas Brondanw Gardens
- WRENN ID
- scarred-ledge-khaki
- 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
- Revettment Walls and Circular Steps to Wall Fountain at Plas Brondanw Gardens, Llanfrothen, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 615 422
- Coordinates
- 52.95975, -4.06192
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The revettment walls and circular steps to the wall fountain at Plas Brondanw Gardens are a notable feature of the landscape. The terrace is constructed of rubble and steps down from the upper garden level, featuring sweeping flights of slatestone steps arranged in a perron style that flank a circular pond and wall fountain. At the top, there is a fine decorative wrought-iron balustrade, while the steps are equipped with plain wrought-iron handrails, both adorned with urn finials. Behind the fountain, there is a putto wall mask.
On the left side of the steps, there are low flanking rubble walls that terminate in a square pier topped with a stone urn finial. On the right side, the wall is built in two stages and also steps down to terminate similarly, with a larger urn finial crowning the upper section. In front of the fountain, another splayed flight of steps descends to the level of the adjacent orangery, with low flanking revettments and wrought-iron handrails, consistent with those found elsewhere.
Local climate
Revettment Walls and Circular Steps to Wall Fountain 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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The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Raised Terrace and Steps at SW end of Plas Brondanw Gardens including Exedra
- 2 Upper terrace wall in S garden at Talygarn
- 3 Circular Enclosing Walls and Fountain at the N end at Plas Brondanw Gardens
- 4 Walls, Steps and Fountain to South and West of the Hall
- 5 Retaining walls, balustrades and steps of south terraces, with urns
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