Entrance Gates, Gatepiers and Wall of Insole Court is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 June 2003. Entrance gates and wall.

Entrance Gates, Gatepiers and Wall of Insole Court

WRENN ID
swift-cinder-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 June 2003
Type
Entrance gates and wall
Address
Entrance Gates, Gatepiers and Wall of Insole Court, Llandaff
OS grid reference
ST 149 779
Coordinates
51.49401, -3.22653
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The entrance gates, gatepiers, and wall of Insole Court are made of pennant stone rubble with freestone dressings. A dwarf wall with ramped coping supports cast iron railings on both sides of a concave entrance leading to the carriage drive. This entrance is flanked by octagonal stone piers topped with pyramid caps. The gates are mounted on smaller cast iron piers of a similar style, but the gates themselves are made of mild steel and were installed after World War II. The nearby contemporary lodge has undergone significant alterations and enlargements.

Local climate

Entrance Gates, Gatepiers and Wall of Insole Court sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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