Wood seasoning shed & saw pit at Neath Canal Depot is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 March 1980. Shed.
Wood seasoning shed & saw pit at Neath Canal Depot
- WRENN ID
- slow-flue-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1980
- Type
- Shed
- Address
- Wood seasoning shed & saw pit at Neath Canal Depot, Tonna
- OS grid reference
- SS 769 988
- Coordinates
- 51.67453, -3.78122
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The building is a wood seasoning shed and saw pit located at Neath Canal Depot. It is a long, low structure with a gabled roof made of snecked rubble, although part of the slate roof has collapsed. On the south side, facing the yard, there is a former wide full-height opening in the center that has been partly infilled with brick, and a doorway has been inserted beneath a steel lintel. The east gable end features the frame of a former window, while the west gable end has a full-height doorway. On the north side, facing the river, there is a wide former window with a segmental head in the center, directly opposite the saw pit inside the building. To the right of this window is a similar window, and to the left is a window with a wooden frame located under the wall plate.
Inside, the building retains a saw pit in the center, which is lined with coursed stone. The roof is supported by sawn softwood trusses, some of which have collapsed.
Local climate
Wood seasoning shed & saw pit at Neath Canal Depot sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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