Ornamental Pool is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 April 2000. Pool.

Ornamental Pool

WRENN ID
under-iron-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
25 April 2000
Type
Pool
Address
Ornamental Pool, Margam Park, Margam
OS grid reference
SS 799 862
Coordinates
51.56208, -3.73268
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The ornamental pool is oval-shaped and filled with water. It features wide moulded coping that has a gently curved profile. There are small rectangular paved areas to the east and west of the pool, with the area to the east containing a socket.

Local climate

Ornamental Pool 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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