Former Canal Weights & Measures Office at Canal Basin is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 January 1997. Office.
Former Canal Weights & Measures Office at Canal Basin
- WRENN ID
- lesser-screen-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1997
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Former Canal Weights & Measures Office at Canal Basin, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 046 282
- Coordinates
- 51.94439, -3.3882
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former Canal Weights & Measures Office at the Canal Basin is a two-storey building that resembles a tower. It is constructed of grey rubble and has been limewashed, topped with a pyramidal slate roof and featuring a brick chimney at the northeast corner. The first floor has camber-headed windows with brick arches on each side, positioned at different levels. On the ground floor, there is a doorway on the northwest side. The building has been restored to include small-pane sash windows. Inside, there are remains of a fireplace on the first floor.
Local climate
Former Canal Weights & Measures Office at Canal Basin sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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