Entrance gates to Broncastell is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 May 2004. Gate entrance. 1 related planning application.
Entrance gates to Broncastell
- WRENN ID
- half-bastion-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 May 2004
- Type
- Gate entrance
- Address
- Entrance gates to Broncastell, Capel Bangor, Aberystwyth, Melindwr, SY23 3LL
- OS grid reference
- SN 654 803
- Coordinates
- 52.40412, -3.9799
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The entrance gates to Broncastell consist of gatepiers constructed from tooled grey stone, topped with cross-gabled caps made of tooled sandstone. These piers are flanked by low, curved walls built of similar grey stone, featuring sandstone coping and iron railings with cast-iron decorative finials. Matching outer gatepiers complete the arrangement.
Local climate
Entrance gates to Broncastell sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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