Museum Stores, formerly Morfa Copperworks rolling mill is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 February 1996. Bridge.

Museum Stores, formerly Morfa Copperworks rolling mill

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 February 1996
Type
Bridge
Address
Museum Stores, formerly Morfa Copperworks rolling mill, Hafod, Landore
OS grid reference
SS 660 952
Coordinates
51.64006, -3.93696
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Museum Stores, formerly the Morfa Copperworks rolling mill, is a long, single-storey building dating from 1828. It features a gabled roof covered with corrugated material and topped by tall ventilators. The structure is mainly built of rubble sandstone with some brick infilling. The main elevation faces east and has stone walls at both ends, which are remnants of the original mill buildings. The southern section includes a series of infilled semi-circular arches typical of the period. The majority of the east elevation was once open, supported by massive timber purlins resting on impressive tapering cast iron columns, with the spaces between the columns later filled in with brick. The north elevation features a wide arch and circular ventilation openings above, which are now blocked. The south elevation is made of rubble stone and has a row of five round-headed windows, two of which are blocked, along with a row of three smaller blocked windows above.

Inside, the building is open to the roof along its entire length, with concrete floors and industrial shelving used for the storage of museum objects.

Local climate

Museum Stores, formerly Morfa Copperworks rolling mill 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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