Pair of Obelisk Lamp Stands to SE of City Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Monument.
Pair of Obelisk Lamp Stands to SE of City Hall
- WRENN ID
- patient-tower-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1999
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Pair of Obelisk Lamp Stands to SE of City Hall, Castle
- OS grid reference
- ST 183 768
- Coordinates
- 51.48507, -3.1779
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This listing describes a pair of obelisk lamp stands made of Portland stone, located to the southeast of City Hall. 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, there are designs of ships' prows with griffin and wyvern figureheads, and the heads of these figures support lamp stands.
Local climate
Pair of Obelisk Lamp Stands to SE 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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