NE, SE and SW Walls, Gatepiers and Railings enclosing Landough Castle and Gatehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 May 1981. House.
NE, SE and SW Walls, Gatepiers and Railings enclosing Landough Castle and Gatehouse
- WRENN ID
- secret-lancet-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- NE, SE and SW Walls, Gatepiers and Railings enclosing Landough Castle and Gatehouse, Llanfair
- OS grid reference
- SS 994 729
- Coordinates
- 51.44681, -3.44836
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The walls, gatepiers, and railings enclosing Landough Castle and the gatehouse date from the 15th century to the later 19th century and have been extensively rebuilt and modified. On the south side of the enclosure, northeast of the gatehouse, there is a tall pair of stone gate piers topped with ball finials, which flank a tall pair of 19th-century iron gates featuring arrow-headed finials. Adjacent to these, on the northeast, are the foundations of a stone dwarf wall and a screen of tall 19th-century iron railings with arrow-headed finials, positioned slightly south of the existing footings of the former 15th-century southeast courtyard wall. The dwarf wall and railings extend northeast to the 15th-century northeast wall, which was once the northeast courtyard wall. This thick stone wall retains a fireplace and blocked openings in its southwest face.
To the southwest of the gatehouse, there is a high castellated wall that has been partly repaired and rebuilt, incorporating a doorway and later 20th-century vehicular doors, extending to the southwest angle. From this point, a castellated wall on top of a grass embankment with a limestone kerb returns northwest to a location roughly parallel with the rectangular bay windows in the southwest elevation of Llandough Castle. Beyond this, there is a pair of 19th-century iron gates that were originally located at Cardiff Docks.
Local climate
NE, SE and SW Walls, Gatepiers and Railings enclosing Landough Castle and Gatehouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 87% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
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