War Memorial Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 January 1989. Public house.
War Memorial Gates
- WRENN ID
- empty-cornice-sienna
- 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
- Public house
- OS grid reference
- SS 758 970
- Coordinates
- 51.65887, -3.79556
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The War Memorial Gates, built around 1921, were established as part of the purchase of the Gnoll Estate Grounds, which became a Memorial Park dedicated to the First World War (1914-1918). This impressive structure features sweeping concave memorial walls with gates at the center, reflecting the influence of Sir Edwin Lutyens.
Constructed from white marble with a stone plinth, the gates are framed by broad piers at the outer corners, which have simply moulded caps. The piers have sunk panels with stone plaques: one on the left commemorating the 1914-1918 war and another on the right for 1939-1945. The flanking walls curve inward towards the gateways, each adorned with three bronze plaques.
The central double gateway is flanked by tall piers that display deep bronze plaques, while the pedestrian gates on either side have similar lower piers and sunk panels. The gates themselves are elaborately designed with heavy ironwork, featuring closely set rods and gilded scrollwork on the lock and top rails, along with exuberant cresting at the top. Each gate includes a bronze medallion displaying civic insignia, and the pedestrian gates exhibit similar decorative details.
Local climate
War Memorial Gates 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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