Gatepiers and attached Walls flanking main drive entrance to Roft Castle House is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 June 1996. Gatepiers and walls.

Gatepiers and attached Walls flanking main drive entrance to Roft Castle House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 June 1996
Type
Gatepiers and walls
Address
Gatepiers and attached Walls flanking main drive entrance to Roft Castle House, Marford, Gresford
OS grid reference
SJ 358 563
Coordinates
53.10066, -2.95899
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The gatepiers and attached walls flanking the main drive entrance to Roft Castle House are made of coursed and squared rubble, with ashlar detailing. The walls have a picturesque crenellated design, beginning with squared piers that curve inward towards the house. They end with circular piers topped with low domed caps. The gates are currently missing.

Local climate

Gatepiers and attached Walls flanking main drive entrance to Roft Castle House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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