Stable Court at St Fagans Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 October 1977. Stable.

Stable Court at St Fagans Castle

WRENN ID
hushed-lintel-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
6 October 1977
Type
Stable
Address
Stable Court at St Fagans Castle, Museum of Welsh Life
OS grid reference
ST 120 771
Coordinates
51.48611, -3.26815
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Stable Court at St Fagans Castle is a building that consists of three wings constructed with local stone rubble walls, Welsh slate roofs, and red brick stacks featuring tall ribbed shafts. These wings are arranged around three sides of a courtyard.

The Eastern Wing is topped with a clock and an octagonal cupola. Its eastern elevation faces Castle Hill and includes two gabled dormers, a rebuilt external chimney, a segmental arched doorway, and a flat arched window. Facing the courtyard, it has a 2-light wood casement window with 6 + 6 pane margin lights on the first floor, along with two mullion-and-transom windows and a doorway on the ground floor, all featuring flat stone heads with small voussoirs.

The Southern Wing's courtyard elevation has a loft door and a small 6 + 6 pane casement window with a stone head on the first floor. The ground floor includes two wide doorways, one small doorway, and three mullion-and-transom windows.

The Western Wing's courtyard elevation features two small 2-light casements with 6 + 6 small panes on the first floor, while the ground floor has two wide doorways, a house doorway, and a 2-light casement with small panes.

A wide stone archway with a segmental head and an embattled parapet connects the northern gable of the eastern stable wing to the outer boundary wall of the castle. The north-west end of the western wing is attached to the medieval castle wall, and its western elevation is positioned on a steep slope that overlooks the cottages on Castle Hill. The upper floor features four 2-light casement windows with flat heads, along with three similar windows in the south gable end.

The building was not inspected during the resurvey.

Local climate

Stable Court at St Fagans Castle 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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  1. South Wall of the Entrance Garden separating it from the Stable Court at St Fagans Castle Grade II 20 m
  2. South Boundary Wall of the Stable Court including the Drinking Fountain on Castle Hill Grade II 22 m
  3. 1 Castle Hill Grade II 28 m
  4. South Wall of Forecourt at St Fagans Castle Grade II 31 m
  5. 2 Castle Hill Grade II 35 m
  6. 3 Castle Hill Grade II 43 m
  7. Lead Cistern in the east forecourt of St Fagans Castle Grade II* 46 m
  8. 4 Castle Hill Grade II 48 m
  9. Hill Cottage Grade II 57 m
  10. Entrance Gates and Wall forming east boundary of the Entrance Garden at St Fagans Castle Grade II 59 m