Retaining Wall adjoining Citrus House is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 April 2000. Retaining wall.
Retaining Wall adjoining Citrus House
- WRENN ID
- low-slate-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 April 2000
- Type
- Retaining wall
- OS grid reference
- SS 800 862
- Coordinates
- 51.56272, -3.73238
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The retaining wall adjoining Citrus House is a Grade II listed structure. It runs north for a short distance from the northeast corner of Citrus House, then curves and extends eastward, where it connects to a short wall that links the almshouses with Ivy Cottage. The wall is made of rubble stone and features a flat stone coping. It has six full-height raked buttresses with quoins along the north side, while soil is piled against the south side to create flower beds. There are doorways at each end of the wall. The doorway next to Citrus House has a shallow pointed head and a dressed limestone surround, while the east-facing side has a plain segmental head. At the eastern end, the wall rises slightly and includes an ornate doorway with a Gibbs surround. The wall that runs at right angles is constructed of narrow coursed rubble with flat stone coping and features a pointed arched dressed stone doorway with a boarded door to the north of the buttressed wall.
Local climate
Retaining Wall adjoining Citrus House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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