West wall of the Dutch Garden at St Fagans Castle with the battlement wall and watchtowers is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 October 1977. Wall.

West wall of the Dutch Garden at St Fagans Castle with the battlement wall and watchtowers

WRENN ID
blind-chancel-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
6 October 1977
Type
Wall
Address
West wall of the Dutch Garden at St Fagans Castle with the battlement wall and watchtowers, Museum of Welsh Life
OS grid reference
ST 119 772
Coordinates
51.48694, -3.26928
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The west wall of the Dutch Garden at St Fagans Castle features a high stone rubble wall known as the 'Battlement Walk', complete with battlements and a parapet walk. This wall extends north-westwards to the 'Watchtower', which is constructed of stone and has a parapet on its northern, southern, and western sides, resembling the terrace parapets. The western wall includes ventilators, and there is a doorway at ground level. An external stone stair rises from the wall walk on the eastern side, creating a small turret at the angle between the wall walk and the south wall of the tower on the western side. At the southern end of the 'Battlement Walk', there is an arch with a cambered head.

Local climate

West wall of the Dutch Garden at St Fagans Castle with the battlement wall and watchtowers sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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