Walls flanking the inclined plane joining the Bettws tramway to the DLP Railway. is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 October 1998. Infrastructure.
Walls flanking the inclined plane joining the Bettws tramway to the DLP Railway.
- WRENN ID
- grim-spindle-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 October 1998
- Type
- Infrastructure
- Address
- Walls flanking the inclined plane joining the Bettws tramway to the DLP Railway., Goetre-Hen, Llangynwyd Lower
- OS grid reference
- SS 891 859
- Coordinates
- 51.56192, -3.60088
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The structure consists of walls that flank an inclined track connecting the Bettws tramway to the DLP Railway. This angled walled track is preserved within woodland and is defined by side walls made of rubble stonework, which are set 3.04 meters apart. The walls average a height of 1.6 meters, although they reach up to 3.3 meters in certain areas where they retain the hillside. The total rise of the track is approximately 15 meters.
Local climate
Walls flanking the inclined plane joining the Bettws tramway to the DLP Railway. sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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