The Old Customs House is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 February 1998. House.
The Old Customs House
- WRENN ID
- roaming-loggia-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1998
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Customs House, Porthcawl Harbour, Porthcawl
- OS grid reference
- SS 819 763
- Coordinates
- 51.47403, -3.70155
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Customs House is a small rectangular building with a semicircular end, constructed from snecked rockfaced sandstone that is now heavily weathered. It features a hipped timber shingle roof. There is a gabled porch that is now roofless, supported by a sandstone block lintel. Adjacent to the porch is a second opening in the main wall. On the curved wall to the left, there are two blocked window openings, each with deep curved sandstone lintels and sills. The end wall to the right, facing Jennings warehouse, has two small rectangular windows. The rear wall is made of rubble, and the quoins at each end of the straight section indicate some alteration. The interior of the building is currently vacant.
Local climate
The Old Customs House 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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