Animal Wall, and Gates near Clock Tower is a Grade I listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 February 1952. Decorative wall and gates. 1 related planning application.
Animal Wall, and Gates near Clock Tower
- WRENN ID
- fallen-sentry-fen
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1952
- Type
- Decorative wall and gates
- Address
- Animal Wall, and Gates near Clock Tower, Castle, CF10 1SZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 179 764
- Coordinates
- 51.48112, -3.18303
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Animal Wall and Gates near the Clock Tower is a Grade I listed stone wall featuring realistic animals on alternate merlons. Located to the west of the Clock Tower, the structure includes iron gates flanked by a wall that has lions holding heraldic shields. The animals depicted on the wall to the west of the gates include a lynx, lioness, bear, sea-lion, apes, wolf, hyena, vulture, beaver, leopard, foxes, and an anteater (with a defaced snout), as well as a pelican.
Local climate
Animal Wall, and Gates near Clock Tower 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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