Dolphin Gates and Gatepiers at Plas Brondanw including Railings to NW is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 May 1998. Gatepiers and railings.

Dolphin Gates and Gatepiers at Plas Brondanw including Railings to NW

WRENN ID
fallow-chimney-myrtle
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
Gatepiers and railings
Address
Dolphin Gates and Gatepiers at Plas Brondanw including Railings to NW, Llanfrothen, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 616 423
Coordinates
52.96049, -4.06149
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Dolphin Gates and Gatepiers at Plas Brondanw, dating from the 20th century, feature tall, off-set rubble gatepiers topped with oversailing coursing and moulded capping. They are adorned with reconstituted stone flaming-urn finials. The decorative wrought-iron gates are painted in the distinctive Clough Williams-Ellis blue, although they were removed for exhibition at the time of the survey in March 1997. To the left, a lower rubble wall extends southwest for approximately 2 meters, with a slate bench set against it on cement-stone supports. Beyond this, a screen of plain railings with fleurs-de-lis heads runs for 5 meters before ending in a plain square rubble pier that steps down.

Local climate

Dolphin Gates and Gatepiers at Plas Brondanw including Railings to NW 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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