Gardens House is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 November 2003. House.
Gardens House
- WRENN ID
- hidden-pilaster-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 November 2003
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gardens House, Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, St. Fagans
- OS grid reference
- ST 120 772
- Coordinates
- 51.48768, -3.26862
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Gardens House is a Grade II listed building, rendered and painted, likely over local rubblestone, with dressed window surrounds and a Welsh slate roof. It is a two-storey, T-shaped structure with an additional wing at the cross of the T. The main house features a porch at the angle facing the garden, which has a hipped slate roof supported by a timber arcade and includes a single window. Above the porch are two small windows, and on the ground floor of the left gable, there is a 3-light window with a blind above it. To the right, there are smaller windows on both floors. The north return has one window below and another in a gablet above. The wing has a glazed door, with two windows below and three above, all of varying sizes, and it does not have dressed window surrounds. The street elevation mirrors the window arrangement of the main house. The wing features a hipped roof and there are five red brick chimney stacks with tall diamond-set shafts; all are paired except for the centre stack, which is tripled. The interior has not been inspected during the resurvey.
Local climate
Gardens House 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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