West Shelter and Amusement Arcade is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 July 2010. Shelter.
West Shelter and Amusement Arcade
- WRENN ID
- blind-wattle-oak
- 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
- Shelter
- Address
- West Shelter and Amusement Arcade, Barry Island, Barry
- OS grid reference
- ST 111 664
- Coordinates
- 51.39028, -3.27781
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The West Shelter and Amusement Arcade is an open shelter built in a Classical style. This tall single-storey concrete structure spans the seafront promenade and is set within the seafront wall. It features nine bays that are divided by paired Tuscan columns, which support a full entablature and a panelled pediment above. At the rear, there is an extension that houses amusement arcades.
Local climate
West Shelter and Amusement Arcade 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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