Gates & Gate Piers, including Flanking Railings at SE (Main) Entrance to Aberdare Park is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 January 1991. Gates and railings.

Gates & Gate Piers, including Flanking Railings at SE (Main) Entrance to Aberdare Park

WRENN ID
frozen-roof-vetch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Constituency
Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 January 1991
Type
Gates and railings
Address
Gates & Gate Piers, including Flanking Railings at SE (Main) Entrance to Aberdare Park, Aberdare West, Rhondda Cynon Taff
OS grid reference
SN 996 030
Coordinates
51.71761, -3.45344
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The gates and gate piers, along with the flanking railings, are located at the southeast entrance to Aberdare Park and are designated as a Grade II listed structure. The entrance features two tall stone square piers topped with pyramidal caps, which are flanked by smaller, similar piers. The iron gates for both carriage and pedestrians have simple panel designs and lock bars, with the main carriage gates adorned with scrolled ironwork at the top. Low rubble walls curve back on either side, terminating in similar square piers; to the left, the wall rounds the corner by the lodge, while to the right, it leads to a bus shelter that steps up beyond the corner with Hirwaun Road. The entrance is further enhanced by finialled iron railings, which feature more elaborate principal uprights with scrolled brackets on the inner side.

Local climate

Gates & Gate Piers, including Flanking Railings at SE (Main) Entrance to Aberdare Park sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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