Lodge 1, Talbot Memorial Park is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 April 2000. Lodge.
Lodge 1, Talbot Memorial Park
- WRENN ID
- muted-ember-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 April 2000
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lodge 1, Talbot Memorial Park, Talbot Road
- OS grid reference
- SS 772 890
- Coordinates
- 51.58677, -3.77278
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Lodge 1 in Talbot Memorial Park is a 2-storey building constructed from coursed grey rock-faced stone with pale stone dressings, topped with a replaced slate roof. It features a plinth with dressed chamfered coping. The front, which faces south, has a gable end with two windows that are 2-light, have square heads, moulded surrounds, and continuous hoodmoulds, and contain late 20th century glazing. There is a diagonal buttress at the outer angle and quoins at the inner angle, both of which rise to kneelers. A narrow string course runs beneath a triangular pediment that has stone coping. Prominently displayed in the gable is a pale stone roundel featuring the Port Talbot coat of arms and the inscription 'Borough of Port Talbot'.
The entrance is located on the east side, facing the main avenue of the park. It has a central doorway with a moulded surround, square head, and hoodmould, which contains a replaced panelled door. To the right of the door is a canted bay window with a hipped tile-covered roof and replaced late 20th century glazing. Above this bay window is a 3-light window with a hoodmould, similar to the other windows. To the left of the entrance is a stepped side stack, which may be false or truncated, with a voluted stone block at each step. The north end of the building mirrors the south front but features an end stack rising from the apex of the pediment and lacks the roundel. The outer west side has a small lean-to with a single light window to the left and a centrally-placed 2-light window on the upper storey.
Access to the interior was not available at the time of inspection on October 25, 1999.
Local climate
Lodge 1, Talbot Memorial Park 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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