Outer Wall of Abergavenny Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 November 2005. Castle wall.
Outer Wall of Abergavenny Castle
- WRENN ID
- frozen-pavement-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 November 2005
- Type
- Castle wall
- OS grid reference
- SO 299 138
- Coordinates
- 51.81905, -3.01769
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The outer wall of Abergavenny Castle is made of red sandstone rubble and features a cock-and-hen coping. It runs along the edge of a steep bank below the castle, enclosing its grounds. The wall is approximately 2 meters high on the inner face, but its height varies significantly on the outer face. It connects to the Gateway at the Castle Lodge.
Local climate
Outer Wall of Abergavenny Castle 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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