Curtain Walls of St Fagans Castle with attached Bothies in the Service Yard is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 October 1977. Castle wall.
Curtain Walls of St Fagans Castle with attached Bothies in the Service Yard
- WRENN ID
- muted-granite-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1977
- Type
- Castle wall
- OS grid reference
- ST 119 771
- Coordinates
- 51.48615, -3.26878
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The curtain walls of St Fagans Castle, dating from the 20th century, are constructed from limestone rubble and stand about 5 meters high. On the east side, there is a segmental archway that provides access to the forecourt of the current house. The walls extend southward and westward along the crest of the hill where the castle is situated, then return north along the west side of the hill, with some sections integrated into the later 19th-century service ranges of the house. The southern section features single-storey lean-to stone and slate bothies that face the yard, which are currently used by the Cooper and Woodturner at the Museum of Welsh Life. The walls on the north and east sides of the forecourt include a wall walk and a castellated parapet. The castellations continue around the perimeter, although it is noted that these were added after 1825.
Local climate
Curtain Walls of St Fagans Castle with attached Bothies in the Service Yard 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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