Retaining walls at Ysgoldy Fach is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 January 2000. Retaining wall.
Retaining walls at Ysgoldy Fach
- WRENN ID
- twisted-dormer-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 January 2000
- Type
- Retaining wall
- Address
- Retaining walls at Ysgoldy Fach, Tre Taliesin, Machynlleth, Llangynfelyn
- OS grid reference
- SN 658 917
- Coordinates
- 52.50684, -3.97854
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The retaining walls at Ysgoldy Fach are constructed of high rubble stone and stand approximately 3 metres tall. The roadside wall runs parallel to the front of the school. It features thin slab tabling with copings made of rounded vertically-laid stone slabs. The wall extends a short distance to the right, where it meets a later playground wall that has similar copings and includes a central gateway. To the right, the retaining wall slopes down to ground level, creating a ramped entry to the gate.
Local climate
Retaining walls at Ysgoldy Fach sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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