Bandstand is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 April 2000. Bandstand.

Bandstand

WRENN ID
hollow-brass-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 April 2000
Type
Bandstand
Address
Bandstand, Talbot Road
OS grid reference
SS 773 891
Coordinates
51.58752, -3.77148
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The bandstand is an octagonal structure featuring cast iron columns that support a domed roof with a cupola. It stands on a low red brick plinth topped with concrete coping, which also serves as the floor. Access is provided by four concrete steps on the west side, bordered by replaced red brick walls with short square end piers.

The bandstand is adorned with eight ornate circular columns that have bases shaped like vases, decorated with relief foliate designs, rings, and beading, topped with foliated voluted capitals. These columns rest on high fluted and ringed pedestals, with cast iron openwork railings between them. The railings display scrollwork and flower bosses, with square designs on the dog rails.

Above, the columns support segmental-arched cast iron panels featuring scrollwork and flowers in the spandrels, with pendant finials at the centers of the arches. The eaves project and are partially supported by brackets that extend at right angles to the arched panels, designed in the same style. The domed roof is covered with lead on the exterior and timber boarded underneath. Inside, there is a small centrally-placed ceiling rose with scrolled decoration. The moulded cast iron eaves feature raised open scrollwork and tall finials at the corners. The lead-covered cupola, a smaller dome, is encircled by an openwork cast iron frieze and topped with a weather vane.

Local climate

Bandstand 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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