Flight of Steps and Retaining Wall of East (Bowling Green) Terrace at Insole Court is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 June 2003. Landscape feature.

Flight of Steps and Retaining Wall of East (Bowling Green) Terrace at Insole Court

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 June 2003
Type
Landscape feature
Address
Flight of Steps and Retaining Wall of East (Bowling Green) Terrace at Insole Court, Llandaff
OS grid reference
ST 150 776
Coordinates
51.49174, -3.22438
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The flight of steps and retaining wall at the east side of Insole Court, known as the Bowling Green Terrace, is a Grade II listed structure. The retaining wall, made of squared coursed limestone with dressed coping, rises to about 1 meter above the lawn. It features a stepped section at the top on either side of a central flight of twelve steps leading down to the lower garden. The steps are flanked by arcaded ramped balustrading, which includes square piers at both the top and bottom. These piers have moulded bases and display alternating vermiculated and reeded blocks, topped with wreathed Ionic capitals, one of which retains its ball finial.

Local climate

Flight of Steps and Retaining Wall of East (Bowling Green) Terrace at Insole Court 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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