Fountain Below S.Terrace at Cyfarthfa Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 January 1988. House.

Fountain Below S.Terrace at Cyfarthfa Castle

WRENN ID
riven-corbel-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Constituency
Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
13 January 1988
Type
House
Address
Fountain Below S.Terrace at Cyfarthfa Castle, Park
OS grid reference
SO 041 072
Coordinates
51.75599, -3.39021
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The fountain below the south terrace at Cyfarthfa Castle is likely from the late 19th century. It features a circular stone basin with a roll-moulded design and is adorned with four carved cherubs that sit on Baroque bull-frog spouts. In the center, there is a circular stone stem with three putti supporting a conch-shell fountain jet. The moulded base is decorated with relief carvings of griffins, dolphins, and other motifs around the spouts.

Local climate

Fountain Below S.Terrace at Cyfarthfa Castle 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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