Circular garden seat at Faendre Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 July 2000. Garden seat, gazebo.

Circular garden seat at Faendre Hall

WRENN ID
dark-wall-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff East MP: Jo Stevens (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 July 2000
Type
Garden seat, gazebo
Address
Circular garden seat at Faendre Hall, St Mellons, Trowbridge
OS grid reference
ST 244 820
Coordinates
51.53253, -3.09079
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The circular garden seat at Faendre Hall is a decorative gazebo built in the 19th century. It features an open circular design supported by six columns with Corinthian-style capitals. These columns hold up a frieze, which in turn supports a domed roof made of wrought iron panels. Each column shaft is adorned with a band of varied ornamentation, including some Celtic-type interlace, and they rest on very deep plinths that are also richly decorated. The plinths are connected by a curved bench, which is further supported at the midpoint by consoles facing both directions. The entrance to the gazebo is located on the south terrace. In the center of the structure, there is a small circular table with a bulbous stem, designed in a bird-bath style.

Local climate

Circular garden seat at Faendre Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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