Gate Piers & Gates to Powis Castle Park is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 February 1996. Gate.
Gate Piers & Gates to Powis Castle Park
- WRENN ID
- drifting-cloister-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 February 1996
- Type
- Gate
- Address
- Gate Piers & Gates to Powis Castle Park, Welshpool
- OS grid reference
- SJ 222 075
- Coordinates
- 52.65966, -3.15038
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The gate piers and gates to Powis Castle Park are likely from the early 20th century and resemble the Fountain Garden Gate designed by G.F. Bodley in 1912. It is possible that Bodley also designed these gates while working at the castle during the early 20th century.
The main gates and foot-gate are made of cast iron and feature applied wrought iron decoration. They are flanked by ashlar piers and well-coursed, squared walls. The ashlar piers on either side of the main gates have pilaster strips and moulded copings. The ornate paired iron gates include scrolled outer panels, a lock-bar, and an overthrow that incorporates the Powis monogram and coronet, with barbed intermediate rails in each tier. The smaller foot-gate is set into a round-arched opening in the wall on the east side of the main gates and features similarly detailed ironwork. The flanking walls beside the main gates have plain copings that sweep down to plain terminal piers, with the western pier partially concealed on the south side by the retaining wall of the adjacent lodge garden.
This entrance feature is notable for its high-quality ashlar and ironwork, and it holds particular significance due to its association with Powis Castle.
Local climate
Gate Piers & Gates to Powis Castle Park receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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