Heavy Horse Stable at West Aberthaw Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 September 2004. Stable.

Heavy Horse Stable at West Aberthaw Farm

WRENN ID
slow-paling-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 September 2004
Type
Stable
Address
Heavy Horse Stable at West Aberthaw Farm, Barry, St. Athan, CF62 4JA
OS grid reference
ST 023 668
Coordinates
51.39235, -3.40526
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Heavy Horse Stable at West Aberthaw Farm is a single-storey building dating from the 19th century. It is made of roughly coursed local lias limestone rubble, featuring dressed quoins and a Welsh slate roof. The rectangular structure has a central door with a segmental head and windows on either side, although the window on the right is a blocked doorway. Inside, the stable consists of a single cell with queen strut roof trusses that have iron reinforcement on the struts.

Local climate

Heavy Horse Stable at West Aberthaw Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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