Operator's Cabin to Sliding Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 February 1996. Gate lodge.
Operator's Cabin to Sliding Bridge
- WRENN ID
- swift-pewter-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1996
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- Operator's Cabin to Sliding Bridge, Barry Docks, Barry
- OS grid reference
- ST 122 671
- Coordinates
- 51.39655, -3.26246
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Operator's Cabin to the Sliding Bridge is a Grade II listed building, likely built around 1889 and designed as a standard pattern wooden signal box for the Barry Railway. It is believed to be the last of its type. The cabin is positioned parallel to the bridge, featuring gabled ends to the east and west. It is constructed of wood with horizontal boarding and has a slate roof, while the basement is made of brick.
Notable architectural features include decorative bargeboards and some panelling on the gable ends. The eastern end has wooden steps leading up to the entrance doorway, with three windows on each side at the operator's level. There are balconies on three sides supported by iron brackets and fitted with metal rails. A doorway on the southern side leads to the ground floor, with steps descending to a basement doorway below. Attached to the western side of the cabin is a small wooden hut with vertical boarding and a hipped slate roof, which houses a mechanism, possibly a hydraulic cylinder.
Inside the operator's cabin, the original lever frame mechanism is intact, featuring seven levers along with an additional adjacent lever.
Local climate
Operator's Cabin to Sliding Bridge 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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