Scott Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 November 2001. Memorial lighthouse.
Scott Memorial
- WRENN ID
- brooding-pier-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff East MP: Jo Stevens (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 November 2001
- Type
- Memorial lighthouse
- Address
- Scott Memorial, Roath Park, Cyncoed
- OS grid reference
- ST 185 792
- Coordinates
- 51.50671, -3.17499
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Scott Memorial is a white-washed clock-tower lighthouse built on a rubble plinth designed to resemble loose rocks. The tower is round, tapering, and consists of three stages that sweep towards the base. At the top, there is a polygonal balcony that is cantilevered on brackets and features balustrading. Rising from the center is a square-section cupola that has a clock on each face, topped with a moulded capstone and dome, which supports a finial with a ship emblem.
On the south side, there is a plain boarded door that is partly cut in. Above this door, narrow rectangular four-pane windows are aligned on the second and third stages, with the same arrangement of windows present on the east, north, and west sides of the tower. Above the doorway, a gold-coloured metal plaque with scrolled edges commemorates Captain R.F. Scott and his faithful companions, who departed from the Port of Cardiff on June 15th, 1910, to find the South Pole and lost their lives in the Antarctic region in March 1912.
At the time of inspection on March 27, 2001, there was no access to the interior.
Local climate
Scott Memorial 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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