Gatepiers and Wing Walls on main Carriage Drive at Insole Court is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 June 2003. Gatepiers and wing walls.

Gatepiers and Wing Walls on main Carriage Drive at Insole Court

WRENN ID
silver-stone-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 June 2003
Type
Gatepiers and wing walls
Address
Gatepiers and Wing Walls on main Carriage Drive at Insole Court, Llandaff
OS grid reference
ST 149 777
Coordinates
51.49218, -3.22589
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The gatepiers and wing walls at Insole Court were built from squared, coursed rock-faced Radyr sandstone, featuring Bath limestone ashlar dressings. There are two square piers topped with a machicolated cornice and stepped caps. One pier displays the family crest of a griffin with a shield, while the other does not have this feature. Curving walls on either side of the carriage drive are capped with ashlar coping and create a bridge that carries the drive over a small ravine.

Local climate

Gatepiers and Wing Walls on main Carriage Drive at 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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