Former Fire Station & Post Office Van Depot is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 September 1986. Industrial complex.
Former Fire Station & Post Office Van Depot
- WRENN ID
- fallen-tracery-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 September 1986
- Type
- Industrial complex
- OS grid reference
- SS 906 798
- Coordinates
- 51.50724, -3.57661
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The building is a former fire station and post office van depot, dated 1936, and features a rare EV111R insignia. It is shown on a 1952 listing map as a fire station and was later used as a post office van depot. The structure is two stories high with a three-bay front that is cement rendered and has square-headed windows. The first-floor windows have deep architraves and small pane glazing, with a tripartite arrangement in the center. The broad entrance on the ground floor is also framed by a similar architrave and is supported by Doric columns. It has sliding doors, with a smaller door located to the left. The roof is made of slate and glazed materials. At the time of inspection in April 1986, the building was disused. This structure is included as a rare public building from the reign of Edward VIII.
Local climate
Former Fire Station & Post Office Van Depot sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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