Gate and gatepiers to Church of St Ciwg is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 March 2003. Gate. 2 related planning applications.
Gate and gatepiers to Church of St Ciwg
- WRENN ID
- buried-zinc-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 March 2003
- Type
- Gate
- Address
- Gate and gatepiers to Church of St Ciwg, Llangiwg, Swansea, Pontardawe, SA8 4TS
- OS grid reference
- SN 723 055
- Coordinates
- 51.7342, -3.84955
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The gate and gatepiers to the Church of St Ciwg are a notable feature. The pedestrian gate includes an iron kissing gate and a pair of main iron gates that have dog bars and fleur-de-lys finials. These gates are set between two piers made of squared tooled stone, with a third pier integrated into the end of a rubble wall. All three piers have plain caps and large boulder finials.
Local climate
Gate and gatepiers to Church of St Ciwg 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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