Chimney 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. Chimney.

Chimney at Aberdulais Falls Tinplate Works

WRENN ID
patient-cinder-cobweb
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
Chimney
Address
Chimney at Aberdulais Falls Tinplate Works, Blaenhonddan
OS grid reference
SS 771 994
Coordinates
51.6807, -3.77827
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The chimney at Aberdulais Falls Tinplate Works is a square, tapering stack made of yellow brick, featuring a stone cornice. It is supported by a tapering base made of tooled squared sandstone, with each face having a rectangular flue opening. This design means that the chimney stands on four corner piers only.

Local climate

Chimney 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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