Boundary walls, gatepiers and gate to forecourt and driveway at Old Gwernyfed is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 September 1961. Boundary wall and gate.
Boundary walls, gatepiers and gate to forecourt and driveway at Old Gwernyfed
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-cobalt-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 September 1961
- Type
- Boundary wall and gate
- Address
- Boundary walls, gatepiers and gate to forecourt and driveway at Old Gwernyfed, Felindre, LD3 0SU
- OS grid reference
- SO 182 365
- Coordinates
- 52.02153, -3.19224
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The boundary walls, gatepiers, and gate at Old Gwernyfed date from the 19th century. The front boundary wall is made of well-selected rubble stone, approximately 60 centimeters thick and 1.8 meters high, featuring squared stone-on-edge copings. To the southwest, the garden boundary wall is less well finished, with uncut copings. The wall turns inward, and the coping rises to meet the gate piers at the main driveway.
The gate piers are constructed of rubble stone and topped with two offsetting courses, each surmounted by heraldic gorged demi-lions rampant on a wreath, with a large spray of oak leaves on the outer side.
The wrought iron gate, made by Hill and Smith of Brierley Hill, Birmingham, features horizontal bars that pierce diagonal iron flats, with the styles rising to a curled finial. The gate is hung on a fluted iron column with a necking band and a knuckle hinge at the bottom.
The lion crests belonging to Captain Wood were removed from Gwernyfed Park in the 1920s.
Local climate
Boundary walls, gatepiers and gate to forecourt and driveway at Old Gwernyfed sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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