Entrance Gates and Railings at Blaenwern is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 February 1996. Gate. 1 related planning application.
Entrance Gates and Railings at Blaenwern
- WRENN ID
- solitary-gateway-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1996
- Type
- Gate
- Address
- Entrance Gates and Railings at Blaenwern, Llanarth, SA47 0PD
- OS grid reference
- SN 423 564
- Coordinates
- 52.18378, -4.30718
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The entrance gates and railings at Blaenwern are made of squared tooled sandstone. They feature gatepiers with plinths, flat caps, pyramid blocks above, and ball finials. Each side has quadrant curved low coped walls and railings, along with smaller end piers that are similar in design. The double iron gates have a top rail that ramps down to urn-topped meeting stiles, with ornate spearheads and a scrolled mid-rail that has spearheads above and dog-bars below. The curving walls are topped with stone coping and have simple low iron rails.
Local climate
Entrance Gates and Railings at Blaenwern sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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