Govilon Boat Club Building at Govilon Wharf is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 March 1996. Former factory.
Govilon Boat Club Building at Govilon Wharf
- WRENN ID
- crooked-timber-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1996
- Type
- Former factory
- Address
- Govilon Boat Club Building at Govilon Wharf, Llanfoist Fawr, Monmouthshire
- OS grid reference
- SO 270 136
- Coordinates
- 51.81713, -3.05924
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Govilon Boat Club Building, constructed around 1821, is located at Govilon Wharf, which was an important site for the local iron industry and served as a canal-side office building. This wharf was significant for trade in iron, lime, and coal, and was associated with Bailey's Tramroad from Nantyglo Ironworks, which opened on December 6, 1821. Although the canal was completed in 1805 under Thomas Cartwright, the wharf and its buildings were built after 1821. The building has undergone modern alterations and is currently used by the Govilon Boat Club.
The structure is a rectangular, whitewashed rubble building with a hipped slate roof. The elevation facing the canal features a lean-to and a modern extension to the west, with camber-headed openings at the east end that include 4-pane casements and a gabled porch. On the north side, away from the canal, there is a square-headed 12-pane sash window to the left and an iron, 20-pane fixed-light window to the right, which has a cambered head and voussoirs. The center of the north side has projecting masonry, possibly a former chimney breast. Additionally, there is a lozenge-shaped weight-restriction panel and a relocated round-headed milestone from the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal.
Despite the alterations, this building is recognized as a surviving 19th-century structure associated with the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal and has group value with other listed items at Govilon Wharf.
Local climate
Govilon Boat Club Building at Govilon Wharf 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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