Former Steam Power House at Briton Ferry Docks is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 September 2005. Power house.
Former Steam Power House at Briton Ferry Docks
- WRENN ID
- late-cobalt-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 September 2005
- Type
- Power house
- OS grid reference
- SS 739 941
- Coordinates
- 51.63199, -3.82251
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former steam power house at Briton Ferry Docks is a single-storey building featuring twin gables. It has a north parallel range that is stepped back and includes a lower flat-roofed extension on the north side. The structure is built from rock-faced, coursed masonry, with dressed quoins and voussoirs around the blocked openings. The gable parapets have flat ashlar cappings that are stepped forward over the doors to the north range. The north extension has snecked masonry and a dressed plinth course. Although the original roof coverings have been removed, the pitched roof of the north parallel range is now covered with corrugated iron. Both ranges have triple arched openings that are blocked and face the main railway lines. The north range features impost blocks with voussoir surrounds, and the larger openings on the west side are covered by sliding metal doors.
Local climate
Former Steam Power House at Briton Ferry Docks sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% 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 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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