Gates and Gatepiers at drive entrance to Friars Point House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 July 1991. Store.
Gates and Gatepiers at drive entrance to Friars Point House
- WRENN ID
- bitter-jade-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1991
- Type
- Store
- Address
- Gates and Gatepiers at drive entrance to Friars Point House, Barry Island, Barry
- OS grid reference
- ST 111 664
- Coordinates
- 51.39018, -3.27886
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The gates and gate piers at the entrance to Friars Point House are tall, rusticated stone structures featuring cornices and plinths. The entrance is marked by paired, painted iron gates that have an ornate design, complete with finials and a lock bar, and caster rails on the inner side. On either side of the gates, there are short sections of similar railings supported by low rubble walls, which end in additional piers.
Local climate
Gates and Gatepiers at drive entrance to Friars Point House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 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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