Former Preswylfa Childrens Home is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 February 1987. Airport terminal.
Former Preswylfa Childrens Home
- WRENN ID
- odd-timber-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1987
- Type
- Airport terminal
- Address
- Former Preswylfa Childrens Home, 3 Merthyr Mawr Road
- OS grid reference
- SS 901 787
- Coordinates
- 51.49692, -3.58349
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Former Preswylfa Children's Home is a single-unit, asymmetrical, two-storey building constructed from rubble, featuring a three-window front. The outer first-floor windows extend through overhanging eaves and are topped with dormer-type roofs. It has a tall hipped tiled roof adorned with ridge cresting and brick-capped rubble chimney stacks. The building includes a plinth and freestone window dressings. A central two-storey and attic bay is set forward and gable-ended, with flanking cross roofs that are gabled on the right and hipped on the left. The windows are mainly paired sash types. There is a lean-to porch at the return angle of the central bay, with a half hipped right end and a cross gable on the left end. The rear exhibits similar architectural details along with a low central extension. At the time of inspection in April 1986, the building was noted to be in poor condition.
Local climate
Former Preswylfa Childrens Home 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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