Gatepiers at Driveway entrance to Cyfarthfa Castel is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 July 1974. Public house, restaurant, shop.

Gatepiers at Driveway entrance to Cyfarthfa Castel

WRENN ID
dark-facade-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Constituency
Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 July 1974
Type
Public house, restaurant, shop
Address
Gatepiers at Driveway entrance to Cyfarthfa Castel, Park
OS grid reference
SO 040 070
Coordinates
51.75424, -3.39122
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The gatepiers at the driveway entrance to Cyfarthfa Castle are notable features from the 19th century. They consist of two impressive sections of ironwork railings, flanked by ironwork gate piers. The round gatepiers are topped with large urn finials and have hinges, along with a cluster of smaller urn-topped uprights attached. There is a matching pair of ironwork gates. The spear railings extend down in seven bays on both the left and right, divided by square groups of urn-finial uprights, and include spear dog-bars. At the outer ends, the railings connect to square, castellated stone turrets, with boundary walls extending beyond. The gates were restored in the spring of 1987.

Local climate

Gatepiers at Driveway entrance to Cyfarthfa Castel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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