Neath Castle is a Grade II* listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 January 1989. Farmhouse.
Neath Castle
- WRENN ID
- waning-rood-autumn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 January 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- SS 753 977
- Coordinates
- 51.66507, -3.8035
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Neath Castle is a significant historical site featuring a rounded earthwork trace with stone revetment walls. The castle includes substantial remains of a twin-towered gatehouse on the west side. This gatehouse is three stories high, with D-ended, rubble-work towers that show traces of limestone dressings and evidence of 19th-century repair work. The towers have decayed arrow slits on all floors, with one intact arrow slit located on the second floor of the right-hand tower, and numerous putlog holes are present.
Above the gateway, there is a machiolated arch at wall walk height, made of stone voussoirs, with an impost block surviving to the right. A blocked lancet is situated above the gateway, and the gate features a pointed two-order roll-moulded arch. There are traces of a possible barbican in front of the gatehouse, and steps from an earlier 13th-century gatehouse can be found within the gate passage. To the right, there is a short length of curtain wall with a single decayed arrow slit.
At the time of inspection in June 1988, the building was in a neglected condition. Neath Castle is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Neath Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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