Cast house at Cefn Cribwr Ironworks is a Grade II* listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 October 1997. Casting house.
Cast house at Cefn Cribwr Ironworks
- WRENN ID
- endless-pinnacle-heath
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1997
- Type
- Casting house
- OS grid reference
- SS 851 834
- Coordinates
- 51.53838, -3.65809
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The casting house at Cefn Cribwr Ironworks is a significant structure built of rubble stonework, measuring approximately 12.2 metres long and 9.75 metres wide. It is located next to the furnace to the north and was originally topped with a low pitched slate roof. The north gable features a door and three large circular openings above it for ventilation and smoke extraction. There are also openings in the side walls, including one on the east side with an 18-inch brick arch that provided rail access for tramway trucks. The building has lost its roof, the south gable where it connects to the furnace, and part of the side walls since the works ceased operations. The sand casting floor has been reconstructed after 1987.
Local climate
Cast house at Cefn Cribwr Ironworks 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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