Rocket Cart Shed is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 January 2000. Shed.
Rocket Cart Shed
- WRENN ID
- wild-alcove-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Gower MP: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 January 2000
- Type
- Shed
- Address
- Rocket Cart Shed, Rhossili Downs, Rhossili
- OS grid reference
- SS 417 882
- Coordinates
- 51.57086, -4.28508
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Rocket Cart Shed is a building measuring approximately 5 by 8 metres. It features local limestone walls that are about 0.45 metres thick, rendered on all sides except for the east, where the quoins are exposed. The roof is made of slate with a tile ridge, and it has projecting rafter-ends at the eaves, which indicate where fascias were once installed. At the verges, the sarking boarding extends out and supports a course of bricks set in cement to secure the slates. A small brick chimney is located at the north gable end, topped with a concrete cap at the cornice level. The original rainwater gutters and pipes are no longer present.
The south gable end features a cart doorway with dressed stone jambs and a segmental arch, the stones of which have pecked chiselled margins. The shed doors are constructed with ledges, braces, and battens, and they have cover strips over the batten joints. These doors are hung on full-length bolted iron strap hinges, with a wicket door incorporated into the left door. There are concrete tracks in front of the shed for the cart to roll out on.
On the east and west sides, there is one window each, featuring brick quoins and cambered arches, along with sandstone sills. Only remnants of the window frames and security bars remain.
Local climate
Rocket Cart Shed sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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