Lodge at former Bishops Palace (Carmarthenshire County Museum) is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 October 2003. Lodge.
Lodge at former Bishops Palace (Carmarthenshire County Museum)
- WRENN ID
- pitched-roof-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 October 2003
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lodge at former Bishops Palace (Carmarthenshire County Museum), Abergwili
- OS grid reference
- SN 440 210
- Coordinates
- 51.86604, -4.26657
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The lodge at the former Bishops Palace, now part of the Carmarthenshire County Museum, is a single-storey building designed in a picturesque style. It features pebble-dashed walls and a slate roof, which has a central pebble-dashed stack with two octagonal shafts. The roof is hipped at the polygonal front and supported by wooden posts, while the rear is half-hipped and adorned with trefoiled barge boards. The windows are fitted with latticework glazing bars and simple hood moulds. The front of the lodge includes a central three-light window, with blind windows on the adjacent sides. To the left, there is a two-light window followed by a door with diagonal boarding. On the right side, there is an added brick porch with a boarded door. Towards the rear, the wall steps out to the eaves line on both sides, featuring a two-light window on the right and a single-light window on the left.
Local climate
Lodge at former Bishops Palace (Carmarthenshire County Museum) 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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