Gate piers to Tythegston Court is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 July 1963. Gate piers.
Gate piers to Tythegston Court
- WRENN ID
- wild-doorway-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1963
- Type
- Gate piers
- Address
- Gate piers to Tythegston Court, Merthyr Mawr
- OS grid reference
- SS 859 792
- Coordinates
- 51.50055, -3.64403
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The gate piers to Tythegston Court are made of stone and feature attached stub walls from former boundary walls. They are designed with vermiculated rustication and have a frieze with a key pattern. The wide faces of the piers display swags, while the narrow faces are adorned with roundels. At the top, the piers are capped with sphinxes.
Local climate
Gate piers to Tythegston Court sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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