Pier to former waste tip tramroad and adjoining boundary wall is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 October 1979. Pier, boundary wall.

Pier to former waste tip tramroad and adjoining boundary wall

WRENN ID
hidden-passage-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 October 1979
Type
Pier, boundary wall
OS grid reference
SS 661 950
Coordinates
51.63857, -3.93624
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The structure is a pier associated with a former waste tip tramroad, along with an adjoining boundary wall. The pier is tall and slightly tapering, made from coursed rubble sandstone with copper slag block quoins. It features putlog holes for the bridge deck supports on both the front and rear sides. The boundary wall runs approximately 60 meters in both directions and is also constructed of rubble stone and copper slag. To the north, the wall reaches the boundary of the Hafod and Morfa sites, at the corner of the Morfa laboratory building. Between this point and the pier, there is a wide arch made of yellow brick, which serves as the entrance to one of the former canal docks.

Local climate

Pier to former waste tip tramroad and adjoining boundary wall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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