The Dean's Steps is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 June 2003. Steps.

The Dean's Steps

WRENN ID
spare-passage-holly
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 June 2003
Type
Steps
Address
The Dean's Steps, Llandaff
OS grid reference
ST 154 781
Coordinates
51.49581, -3.21898
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Dean's Steps are a flight of granite steps that lead from The Cathedral Green to the west front of the Cathedral. They feature stone paving and cast iron rails, with a central rail and side gutters. The steps are bordered by the garden walls of The Deanery and Cathedral Court, which are part of the overall setting.

Local climate

The Dean's Steps 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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