Chirk Castle Gates, Screen and Piers is a Grade I listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 January 1966. Gate. 1 related planning application.
Chirk Castle Gates, Screen and Piers
- WRENN ID
- muted-chalk-yarrow
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 4 January 1966
- Type
- Gate
- Address
- Chirk Castle Gates, Screen and Piers, LL14 5EN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 281 376
- Coordinates
- 52.93171, -3.07105
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Chirk Castle Gates, Screen and Piers are a Grade I listed structure featuring intricate cast and wrought ironwork, painted black with gold highlights. The design includes massive openwork piers topped with lead wolf finials, twin carriage gates with side panels, and a rich heraldic overthrow displaying the Myddelton arms. There are flanking pedestrian gates and screen railings set on dwarf ashlar walls with roll-moulded copings, along with outer stone piers that have acorn finials. The exceptional ironwork detailing features Corinthian capitals on the open piers, adorned with vine tendrils and coronets, and balustraded bases. The heraldic overthrow has scrolled supports decorated with bird, flower, and foliage ornaments, along with urn finials and a sunburst supporter on the top rail. The carriage gates display intricate scrolled foliage and masks, while the side gates and railings have spear finials and simpler scrollwork crestings. For much of their history, the gates have been painted white with gold highlights. The gates were removed for repair during an inspection in January 1998.
Local climate
Chirk Castle Gates, Screen and Piers receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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