Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary Walls at entrance to Penllyn Castle Main Drive is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 April 1989. Chapel.
Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary Walls at entrance to Penllyn Castle Main Drive
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-moat-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1989
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary Walls at entrance to Penllyn Castle Main Drive, Cowbridge
- OS grid reference
- SS 973 760
- Coordinates
- 51.4743, -3.47936
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The gatepiers, gates, and boundary walls at the entrance to the main drive of Penllyn Castle are made of freestone and date from the 19th century. The square piers feature a crenellated cornice and pyramidal caps with finials, which are similar to those found on the gables of Lodge Cottage. The piers have blank coats of arms and are accompanied by low iron gates. The boundary walls curve outwards and ramp down to either side. To the left, the walls continue along the frontage of the churchyard and include a gated entry with square gate piers that have cross-gabled caps. To the right, the walls front Lodge Cottage and end at another gate pier at the edge of the road junction.
Local climate
Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary Walls at entrance to Penllyn Castle Main Drive 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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