Gates, Gatepiers and Forecourt Walls, including associated Arch and Bridge to S, at the Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 November 1999. Gatepiers and walls.

Gates, Gatepiers and Forecourt Walls, including associated Arch and Bridge to S, at the Almshouses

WRENN ID
eternal-tin-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 November 1999
Type
Gatepiers and walls
Address
Gates, Gatepiers and Forecourt Walls, including associated Arch and Bridge to S, at the Almshouses, Llanrhaeadr, Llanrhaeadr-Yng-Nghinmeirch
OS grid reference
SJ 081 633
Coordinates
53.15962, -3.37566
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The gates, gatepiers, and forecourt walls, including the associated arch and bridge to the south, are located at the Almshouses and are listed as a Grade II building. The wall serves as a retaining wall for the raised forecourt and is made of rough-dressed, coursed limestone blocks. It retains its original sandstone copings and originally featured wrought iron railings, with the attachments still visible. The wall stands approximately 0.5 meters high at the northern end and rises to just over 2 meters at the southern end due to the sloping terrain.

In the center, there is a fine pair of panelled sandstone gatepiers, each about 1.8 meters tall, featuring moulded bases and cornices, topped with finial bases (the finials are missing). The original wrought iron half gates have a shaped top and scrolled ends, along with decorative lower railings. A contemporary flight of five sandstone steps leads up to the gates and piers.

At the northern end, the wall ends with a pair of plain 19th-century gatepiers and a wide modern iron gate. The southern end of the wall returns west to connect with the almshouse’s rubble garden wall. Here, there is a pointed-arched entrance within a short section of wall that continues eastward, featuring a 19th-century chamfered wooden frame. This section of the wall slopes down past the arch to form a low churchyard revetment wall. The arch leads to a simple, round-arched pedestrian bridge without parapets, which spans a stream flowing downhill from St Dyfnog's Well, constructed of limestone rubble.

Local climate

Gates, Gatepiers and Forecourt Walls, including associated Arch and Bridge to S, at the Almshouses sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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