Fingerpost at the junction of High Street and Glyn Street is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 July 1997. Fingerpost.
Fingerpost at the junction of High Street and Glyn Street
- WRENN ID
- unlit-barrel-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Rhondda and Ogmore MP: Chris Bryant (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1997
- Type
- Fingerpost
- Address
- Fingerpost at the junction of High Street and Glyn Street, Ogmore Vale, Ogmore Valley
- OS grid reference
- SS 933 903
- Coordinates
- 51.60169, -3.54121
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The fingerpost at the junction of High Street and Glyn Street is a cast iron direction post. It features a tapered round column with a moulded base, a necking band, and a cyma moulded capital. Mounted on sleeves above the capital are two rectangular direction plates that indicate the directions to Bridgend and Nantymoel. The column is inscribed with the lettering "TONDU ENG WORKS" and "O & G / U D C." At the top, the column is capped with a stilted ball finial.
Local climate
Fingerpost at the junction of High Street and Glyn Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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