Mount Stuart Graving Dock No.2 is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 August 1992. Dry dock.
Mount Stuart Graving Dock No.2
- WRENN ID
- low-tin-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1992
- Type
- Dry dock
- Address
- Mount Stuart Graving Dock No.2, Inner Harbour Area, Butetown
- OS grid reference
- ST 190 743
- Coordinates
- 51.46204, -3.1671
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Mount Stuart Graving Dock No. 2 is a dry dock approximately 150 meters long and 30 meters wide. The sea walls of the dock are constructed from massive blocks of grey-brown stone, topped with granite copings. Near the sea gates, the dock walls are made of massive-blocked snecked reddish stone, although some repairs have been made using concrete on the southwest wall. The stepped walls of the dock are built from snecked brown stone, with additional repairs and extensions at the northwest end in concrete. The outer end of the dock is raised above the main dock area, featuring concrete flooring. The dock gate is of the caisson type and includes a railed, metal-plated walkway. The gate is operated by cables connected to electric winches housed in a red brick and slate shed. Large capstans and bollards are located on each side of the dock entrance, with manual capstans and bollards situated to the northeast, between Docks No. 2 and No. 1.
Local climate
Mount Stuart Graving Dock No.2 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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