Scotch Fald is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 June 1990. Fald.

Scotch Fald

WRENN ID
sheer-corridor-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 June 1990
Type
Fald
Address
Scotch Fald, Pelenna Forest, Pelenna
OS grid reference
SS 825 984
Coordinates
51.67288, -3.70051
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Scotch Fald is a structure consisting of two concentric circular walls made of drystone rubble. The inner wall stands between 2 and 2.5 meters high and features two entrances that are directly opposite each other. The outer wall, which is 1 to 1.2 meters high, has an entrance on the northeast side that does not align with the openings of the inner wall. This outer wall is partly breached and has additional rubble stone walls attached, creating three sides of a rectangular enclosure that is open to the south, with the circular fald located at the northwest corner. The outer walls also retain some flat copings.

Local climate

Scotch Fald sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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