Walls, Gatepiers, Gates and Lodge at Porth-y-pentre is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 December 2005. Gateway and lodge.

Walls, Gatepiers, Gates and Lodge at Porth-y-pentre

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 December 2005
Type
Gateway and lodge
Address
Walls, Gatepiers, Gates and Lodge at Porth-y-pentre, Llanover Park, Abergavenny, Llanover
OS grid reference
SO 314 079
Coordinates
51.76646, -2.99455
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The walls, gatepiers, gates, and lodge at Porth-y-pentre are constructed from squared red sandstone with dressed copings, topped by a stone slate roof on the lodge. The Victorian park wall features a recessed entrance, with stone piers that have dressed caps leading to wing walls also finished with dressed coping. The central gateway is flanked by the lodge on the left and a footgate on the right. It includes square piers and wrought iron double gates, with a wrought iron footgate to the right and a decorative panel of wrought iron railings on a dwarf stone wall to the left.

The lodge is two storeys tall and has a T-shaped layout, with the head of the T facing the gates. It features a gabled porch on the right and a small canted bay window on the left, which has a 2-light casement window above it. The road elevation displays two small windows on the ground floor of the gable end and two 2-light windows in the wing behind. The gable is topped with a stack that has paired square flues. The upper floor includes the base of a corbelled stack, which is now missing, and a small dormer with a pent roof. The rear elevation has not been seen. The interior has not been observed during the resurvey.

Local climate

Walls, Gatepiers, Gates and Lodge at Porth-y-pentre receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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