Chimney west of Vivian engine house is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. Chimney. 1 related planning application.

Chimney west of Vivian engine house

WRENN ID
noble-lantern-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 March 1987
Type
Chimney
Address
Chimney west of Vivian engine house, Hafod, Landore
OS grid reference
SS 661 949
Coordinates
51.63767, -3.93549
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The structure is a tall, tapering chimney stack made of red brick. It features an octagonal plinth with a corbelled head and a circular shaft. The shaft is reinforced with numerous iron bands and has a corbelled ring at its neck.

Local climate

Chimney west of Vivian engine house 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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