Cart shed at Castle-upon-Alun House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 June 1998. Cart shed. 1 related planning application.
Cart shed at Castle-upon-Alun House
- WRENN ID
- second-tracery-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 June 1998
- Type
- Cart shed
- Address
- Cart shed at Castle-upon-Alun House, St. Bride's Major
- OS grid reference
- SS 910 748
- Coordinates
- 51.46242, -3.57034
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The cart shed at Castle-upon-Alun House is a long, single-storey building dating from the 19th century, oriented east-west. It is constructed from rubble stone and covered with a slate roof. The south-facing front features four wide basket-arched openings with voussoirs. The second and fourth openings from the left have been blocked with masonry. The blocking of the second opening includes a 4-pane window with shutters and no glazing, set on a brick sill. The fourth blocking has a low opening at ground level. Originally, there was an additional range to the west, which is now in ruins. There are no openings on the rear side of the building.
The east gable end has another wide opening at a lower level, which is filled with brick beneath the arch. Above this opening is a loft hatch with a brick surround and shutters. Inside, there is a rubble stone partition between the third and fourth bays from the left, with openings on either side. Steps to the right would have led up to the loft in the eastern bay. There is also a small square opening in the center, possibly for a chute. The structure features simple tie beam trusses.
Local climate
Cart shed at Castle-upon-Alun House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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