Dry dock is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Anglesey local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 August 1974. Dry dock.
Dry dock
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-spindle-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Constituency
- Ynys Môn MP: Llinos Medi (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1974
- Type
- Dry dock
- Address
- Dry dock, Porth Amlwch, Amlwch
- OS grid reference
- SH 451 935
- Coordinates
- 53.41559, -4.33208
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The dry dock was created by blasting into natural rock faces to enlarge a narrow inlet at the northeast end of the Lower Basin, or outer harbour, at Porth Amlwch. The northern side of the channel was built up with walling, similar to the earlier sections of harbour walling.
Local climate
Dry dock 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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