Shelter in Grange Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 November 1997. Shelter.
Shelter in Grange Gardens
- WRENN ID
- final-crypt-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1997
- Type
- Shelter
- Address
- Shelter in Grange Gardens, Grangetown
- OS grid reference
- ST 180 749
- Coordinates
- 51.46754, -3.18141
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The shelter in Grange Gardens is a rustic structure made from tree trunks and branches, topped with a slate roof. It has a broad octagonal shape, featuring a wide segmentally arched entrance and windows on the front and sides of the octagon.
Local climate
Shelter in Grange Gardens 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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- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
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Nearby listed buildings
- War Memorial in Grange Gardens, including enclosure railings
- Parish Church of St Paul.
- Grange Farm House
- Gas Holder at British Gas Grangetown Works
- Central Station (Main entrance is in community of Castle)
- Central Workshops of City of Cardiff Operational Services.
- Water Tower at Cardiff Central Station
- Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas
- Premises occupied by Jacob's Antique Market
- Great Western Hotel