South Boundary Wall of the Stable Court including the Drinking Fountain on Castle Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 October 1977. Boundary wall.
South Boundary Wall of the Stable Court including the Drinking Fountain on Castle Hill
- WRENN ID
- eternal-spire-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1977
- Type
- Boundary wall
- Address
- South Boundary Wall of the Stable Court including the Drinking Fountain on Castle Hill, Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, St. Fagans
- OS grid reference
- ST 120 771
- Coordinates
- 51.48612, -3.26783
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The South Boundary Wall of the Stable Court, which includes a drinking fountain, is located on Castle Hill. From the south side of the entrance to the stables, a boundary wall made of limestone rubble extends downhill. Near the north-east end of this wall, there is a stone drinking fountain set in a recess. The fountain features a semi-octagonal stone base positioned at the top of two stone steps, within a niche in the rear wall framed by a horseshoe-shaped blind arch supported by slender circular columns of granite.
To the south-west of the fountain, an older limestone rubble wall continues downhill before turning in towards the southern end of the eastern wing of the castle stables. Below this turning point, a much lower boundary wall made of stone, with rough capping and buttresses, descends downhill and then angles north at approximately 90 degrees towards the southern wing of the stables. From this angle, a low and roughly built retaining and embankment wall of stone extends south-westwards downhill towards No. 1 Castle Hill.
Local climate
South Boundary Wall of the Stable Court including the Drinking Fountain on Castle Hill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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