Pair of Gate Piers to the Former Margam House is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 April 2000. Gate piers.

Pair of Gate Piers to the Former Margam House

WRENN ID
upper-keystone-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
25 April 2000
Type
Gate piers
Address
Pair of Gate Piers to the Former Margam House, Margam Park
OS grid reference
SS 800 860
Coordinates
51.56046, -3.73155
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a pair of square gate piers made of limestone ashlar, originally part of the former Margam House. Each pier features flat cap stones with mouldings on the undersides and is topped with large ball finials set on moulded pedestals. On the exterior side of each pier, there is an ornamental scroll supported by a corbel, while the interior sides have jambs.

Local climate

Pair of Gate Piers to the Former Margam House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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