Garden Wall of St. Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1975. Garden wall. 3 related planning applications.
Garden Wall of St. Cross
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-footing-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1975
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Garden Wall of St. Cross, Llandaff, CF5 2DX
- OS grid reference
- ST 155 779
- Coordinates
- 51.49429, -3.21855
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The garden wall of St. Cross is constructed from pale stone rubble and features a sloping ashlar coping. It includes a gateway that leads to the front door. The wall measures approximately 20 meters in length and stands about 1.3 meters high. It extends from the rear elevation of St. Andrews and runs along the eastern boundary of the lane that connects High Street and Cardiff Road, continuing as far as the garden wall of The Lodge.
Local climate
Garden Wall of St. Cross 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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