North Wall of the Entrance Garden at St Fagans Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 October 1977. Garden wall.

North Wall of the Entrance Garden at St Fagans Castle

WRENN ID
noble-flint-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
6 October 1977
Type
Garden wall
Address
North Wall of the Entrance Garden at St Fagans Castle, Museum of Welsh Life
OS grid reference
ST 120 771
Coordinates
51.48671, -3.26818
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The north wall of the entrance garden at St Fagans Castle is constructed of limestone rubble and stands approximately 2.5 meters tall. It features a doorway with a slightly cambered headed arch made of dressed stone. The wall is topped with a parapet that has ramped coping and is adorned with a very ornate wrought iron gate. Towards the east end of the wall, there is another doorway that leads into the rose garden. This doorway has a pointed head with stone voussoirs, a stone parapet, and a boarded door with hinges.

Local climate

North Wall of the Entrance Garden 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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