Pair of Obelisk Lamp Stands to W of City Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Lamp stand. 8 related planning applications.

Pair of Obelisk Lamp Stands to W of City Hall

WRENN ID
little-wattle-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 April 1999
Type
Lamp stand
Address
Pair of Obelisk Lamp Stands to W of City Hall, Castle, CF10 3ND
OS grid reference
ST 182 768
Coordinates
51.48499, -3.17938
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This listing describes a pair of obelisk lamp stands located to the west of City Hall. Made from Portland stone, each obelisk is set on a pedestal. At the base of the obelisks, there is ironwork featuring the Cardiff arms on the front. On the sides, the ironwork displays ships' prows with griffin and wyvern figureheads, which have lamp stands on their heads.

Local climate

Pair of Obelisk Lamp Stands to W of City Hall 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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