West Lodge to Cardiff Castle, including attached Walls & Gateway is a Grade II* listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 February 1952. Lodge.
West Lodge to Cardiff Castle, including attached Walls & Gateway
- WRENN ID
- eternal-eave-meadow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1952
- Type
- Lodge
- OS grid reference
- ST 178 764
- Coordinates
- 51.48115, -3.18458
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
West Lodge to Cardiff Castle is a two-storey building made of grey stone, designed in a Gothic style with castellated features and stone chimneys. It has a splayed oriel window above two Gothic windows. The left side, which faces the park, includes a blocked Gothic doorway flanked by Gothic windows. On the first floor, there is a two-light window surrounded by single-light windows, all featuring hoodmoulds. To the right of the lodge, facing the road, there is a stone wall with a pedestrian gateway. To the west of the lodge, there is a castellated screen wall with a broad gateway leading to the park, which has wooden gates and a small pedestrian gateway topped with a heraldic shield. Adjacent to the gateway on the west side is a square turret and a length of stone wall.
Local climate
West Lodge to Cardiff Castle, including attached Walls & Gateway 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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