Entrance to Twyn yr Hydd and Flanking Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 April 2000. Entrance structure.

Entrance to Twyn yr Hydd and Flanking Walls

WRENN ID
fossil-balcony-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
25 April 2000
Type
Entrance structure
Address
Entrance to Twyn yr Hydd and Flanking Walls, Margam
OS grid reference
SS 811 851
Coordinates
51.55304, -3.71549
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The entrance to Twyn yr Hydd features square piers and flanking walls made of narrow coursed sandstone, topped with flat stone coping. The piers have quoins and tall gate piers that are capped with flat two-tier capstones. Short walls on either side of the gate piers lead to quadrant walls that curve out to the south and then to the east and west. These walls end in shorter piers, similar to the gateway piers but topped with ball finials. The piers are flanked by low sections of wall that support ornate cast iron screens. These screens have a frieze of scrolls above and below the top rails, from which narrow wave finials rise. Below the dog rails, arched heads connect the sections, also featuring wave finials. Beyond the screens are additional piers with ball finials and more short wall sections. To the west, there is another quadrant wall with an end pier, which connects to a dressed stone wall with stone coping that encircles the garden as a ha-ha. The wall to the east ends after a short distance, while another wall runs northward, and another runs southeast, appearing to act as a buttress. This southeast wall steps down in stages with a curved coping and is interrupted by piers with ball finials. To the north, there is a section with an iron screen, leading to a recessed symmetrical area containing two iron screens between two short quadrant walls. The wall continues for a short distance to the north.

Local climate

Entrance to Twyn yr Hydd and Flanking Walls 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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