Old Works Library at Aberdulais Falls Tinplate Works is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 November 2003. Library.

Old Works Library at Aberdulais Falls Tinplate Works

WRENN ID
grey-chapel-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 November 2003
Type
Library
Address
Old Works Library at Aberdulais Falls Tinplate Works, Blaenhonddan
OS grid reference
SS 772 994
Coordinates
51.68006, -3.77755
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Old Works Library at Aberdulais Falls Tinplate Works is an outbuilding that has been converted into a tea room. It is constructed of whitewashed rubble stone and features a slate roof with a small red brick stack at the left end. The building is single-storey and consists of five bays, with a gabled porch at the center and two cambered-headed windows on each side, which have brick heads. The late 20th-century shutters are present, and there is a blocked window in the left end wall. The rear of the building has five cambered-headed four-pane sash windows with slate sills. A toilet block was added to the right end in the later 20th century. The interior has been altered for its current use as a tea room.

Local climate

Old Works Library at Aberdulais Falls Tinplate Works 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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