Boiling house with attached privy at Caerau is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Anglesey local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 November 2000. Boiling house.
Boiling house with attached privy at Caerau
- WRENN ID
- third-oriel-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Constituency
- Ynys Môn MP: Llinos Medi (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 November 2000
- Type
- Boiling house
- OS grid reference
- SH 301 889
- Coordinates
- 53.36975, -4.55394
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The building is a single-storey boiling house with an attached privy and shed, located at Caerau. The main structure features rubble walls with widely slobbered mortar and a grouted roof made of old small slates. It has a tall central chimney stack topped with a thin capping, flaunching, and a red pot, which marks the gable end of the original free-standing boiling house. There is a modern boarded door on the left (north) gable end, and a small timber-framed fixed light window with six panes located in the center of the front elevation.
To the right (south) end of the boiling house, there is a storage shed with a single doorway on the left side of its main elevation. At the left (north) end of the boiling house is a former privy, which has rendered walls and a corrugated iron roof, featuring a modern boarded door with the date '1936' above it. Additionally, attached to the right (south) end of the storage shed is a second shed, which is timber-framed and clad in corrugated iron.
Local climate
Boiling house with attached privy at Caerau sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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