Locomotive Shed, Glyn Valley Tramway is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 July 2003. Shed.

Locomotive Shed, Glyn Valley Tramway

WRENN ID
dark-solder-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
8 July 2003
Type
Shed
Address
Locomotive Shed, Glyn Valley Tramway, Glyn Ceiriog, Llangollen, Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog
OS grid reference
SJ 202 378
Coordinates
52.93183, -3.1874
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Locomotive Shed at Glyn Valley Tramway is a six-bay single-storey building made of red brick, topped with a corrugated asbestos-cement roof. It features wooden barge boards and a moulded brick plinth. Each bay includes a window with a segmental brick head and a chamfered brick sill, although these openings are boarded over from the outside. The entrance is located at the east gable end, which has double sheet-metal doors in the original openings, and the gable itself is covered with corrugated steel sheeting. During an inspection in 2002, the south side was partly obscured by two temporary portakabins and a water tank, with a small late-20th century lean-to toilet block to their left. There are no openings on the west gable end.

Inside, the shed is well-preserved, featuring brick wall shafts between the bays that support King-post roof trusses. The windows still have their original small-pane iron glazing, each with a small pivoting opening light. At the far left end, one window has been converted into a door leading into the toilet block. The floor consists of brick paving along the sides, with compact earth in the middle, likely infill from the inspection pits.

Local climate

Locomotive Shed, Glyn Valley Tramway receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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