Lower South Terrace at Dyffryn Gardens(partly in St Nicholas and Bonvilston Community) is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 October 2002. Terrace.
Lower South Terrace at Dyffryn Gardens(partly in St Nicholas and Bonvilston Community)
- WRENN ID
- third-stair-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 October 2002
- Type
- Terrace
- Address
- Lower South Terrace at Dyffryn Gardens(partly in St Nicholas and Bonvilston Community), Wenvoe
- OS grid reference
- ST 095 723
- Coordinates
- 51.4425, -3.30311
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Lower South Terrace at Dyffryn Gardens is a Grade II listed terrace, primarily constructed of limestone with some reconstituted stone. It features a low coursed rubble retaining wall with a balustrade on either side of a central exedra. Each side has six sections of balustrading, with each section consisting of ten balusters placed between plinths that are topped by urns, and there are plain end walls. In the center, five shallow curved steps, which are backed by a low wall adorned with a pair of urns, lead down to the lawn below. In front of the steps, there is a small sundial set on three wide octagonal steps, supported by an octagonal shaft.
Local climate
Lower South Terrace at Dyffryn Gardens(partly in St Nicholas and Bonvilston Community) 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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