Public Convenience is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 July 2010. Public convenience.
Public Convenience
- WRENN ID
- steep-jade-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 July 2010
- Type
- Public convenience
- Address
- Public Convenience, Barry Island, Barry
- OS grid reference
- ST 115 665
- Coordinates
- 51.39091, -3.27199
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This building is a public convenience constructed with concrete and brick panels. It features a flat roof and is a single-storey structure with an irregular symmetrical eight-bay neo-classical façade. The façade includes a cornice and pilasters that divide the bays. The entrances are centrally located, with the Ladies' room to the left and the Gentlemen's room to the right, each having recessed enclosures and doors leading to the outer bays. The frieze displays raised steel lettering that reads 'PUBLIC CONVENIENCE LAVATORIES & CLOAKROOMS', while the architrave above each door indicates 'LADIES' and 'GENTLEMEN'.
The building narrows towards the rear and has high-level windows that were blocked at the time of inspection. It features corner pilasters, a continuous cornice, and ramps leading to the roof level. On the downhill side, there are double doors and side windows to a lower ground floor.
In front of the building, there are two triangular enclosures bordered by concrete piers and balustrades on brick plinth walls.
Local climate
Public Convenience sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% 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 17 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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