Blast Furnace at Maesteg Sports Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 July 1997. Industrial.
Blast Furnace at Maesteg Sports Centre
- WRENN ID
- fallen-pinnacle-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1997
- Type
- Industrial
- OS grid reference
- SS 848 915
- Coordinates
- 51.61112, -3.66429
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Blast Furnace at Maesteg Sports Centre is a Grade II listed structure built of rubble stone and faced with Pennant Sandstone ashlar work. It has a square plan that encloses a circular furnace, featuring three blowing arches located at the rear and sides, and a casting arch at the front. Originally, the stack rose as a tapered square cone, approximately 14 meters (46 feet) high, leading to a charging ramp that was accessed from the higher land to the south. Each of the arches is made of ashlar and tapers inwards. The casting arch still retains the tap hole and has a cinder notch for slag positioned to one side. The throat of the furnace was blocked during consolidation work in 1995, and the upper section of the stack has been destroyed.
Local climate
Blast Furnace at Maesteg Sports Centre 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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