Gate to Fountain Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 February 1996. Gate.
Gate to Fountain Garden
- WRENN ID
- kindled-postern-aspen
- 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 to Fountain Garden, Powis Castle, Welshpool
- OS grid reference
- SJ 218 064
- Coordinates
- 52.65002, -3.15693
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Gate to the Fountain Garden is a Grade II listed structure designed by G.F. Bodley in 1912, commissioned by Violet, Lady Powis as a gift for her husband, the Fourth Earl. This gate is a replica of an early 18th-century gate depicted in a print of Powis House, the family's London residence.
The gate features ashlar piers with moulded panels and heavy moulded caps that flank a pair of iron gates, which are cast with some wrought iron decoration. The gates are elaborately adorned with scroll-work that includes the Herbert Arms. Originally, the piers were topped with lead wyverns, which were missing at the time of the last survey in May 1995.
This gate is a notable example of 20th-century ironwork and plays a significant role in the early 20th-century garden layout at Powis, contributing both visually and historically to the garden's design.
Local climate
Gate to Fountain Garden 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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