Circular Walls and Steps at West End Pond is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 2004. Monument.

Circular Walls and Steps at West End Pond

WRENN ID
ghost-spire-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 December 2004
Type
Monument
Address
Circular Walls and Steps at West End Pond, West End Town, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen, Llantwit Major
OS grid reference
SS 963 688
Coordinates
51.40908, -3.49143
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The circular pond is surrounded by a rough limestone wall that rises on the west side and features a flight of five steps leading to a platform at the rear. The top of the wall is finished with roughly shaped stones. Some sections of the wall, especially those facing the street, have been rebuilt.

Local climate

Circular Walls and Steps at West End Pond sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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