Arch and gate in front garden wall to Pontgarreg Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1981. Garden gateway.

Arch and gate in front garden wall to Pontgarreg Cottage

WRENN ID
stubborn-foundation-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 May 1981
Type
Garden gateway
Address
Arch and gate in front garden wall to Pontgarreg Cottage, Johnstown, Carmarthen
OS grid reference
SN 392 195
Coordinates
51.85152, -4.33502
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The structure is a red brick garden gateway located in front of the wall of Pontgarreg Cottage. It features a flat top and a crude rounded-pointed arched opening. The gateway has cement coping and is adorned with a wrought iron gate that has an elliptical-curved top rail and double mid-rail. The gate includes spiked uprights with intricate scrollwork between them, featuring scrolls in the lower section, diagonal crosses between the mid rails, and small scrolls above. The upper section consists of vertical bars that end in plain spike finials above the top bar.

Local climate

Arch and gate in front garden wall to Pontgarreg Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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