Gates, piers and walls at entrance to Glanwysg is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 October 2005. Gatepiers and walls.
Gates, piers and walls at entrance to Glanwysg
- WRENN ID
- roaming-lime-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 October 2005
- Type
- Gatepiers and walls
- Address
- Gates, piers and walls at entrance to Glanwysg, Sennybridge, Maescar, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SN 916 284
- Coordinates
- 51.94383, -3.57811
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The entrance to Glanwysg features two gatepiers made of tooled stone, each topped with square stepped caps and low plinths. There are double iron gates that ramp down to a meeting stile, equipped with a double mid-rail and spearhead bars. Flanking the gates are two curving walls made of squared tooled stone that extend out to the outer piers. Additionally, a length of rubble wall extends from the western pier, connecting to a tooled stone pentagonal pier that has a flat cap.
Local climate
Gates, piers and walls at entrance to Glanwysg sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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