Llandaff Sub-Control Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 October 2021. Control centre.

Llandaff Sub-Control Centre

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
7 October 2021
Type
Control centre
OS grid reference
ST 151 776
Coordinates
51.49139, -3.22407
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Llandaff Sub-Control Centre is a single-storey rectangular building oriented on an east-west axis. Constructed from brick and concrete, it features a projecting plinth and a flat roof with roof-level vents, but is otherwise unadorned. The entrance is located at the west end, where there is a slight projection; the doorway is recessed and fitted with a modern security door.

Upon entering, there is a timber door that leads into a small ante-room, with a messenger waiting room to the right and a corridor straight ahead that runs the entire length of the building. Rooms are situated on either side of the corridor, with operational rooms on the south side and support and plant rooms on the north side.

From the messenger waiting room, the operational rooms include a message room equipped with timber acoustic cubicles, followed by a large control room that is currently empty. The support and plant rooms consist of a plant room housing generating equipment, ventilation plant, controls, and intact switchgear installations. There are also men's and women's WCs, with urinals and toilets still in place, a small kitchen featuring a Belfast sink, boiler, and cupboards, a storeroom that was originally a ladies' dormitory, a dormitory fitted with steel-framed double bunks, and a liaison officer's room at the end.

Throughout the building, four-panel timber doors remain, along with various telephones and original wall fixtures, including air ventilation ducts and light switches. The operational rooms are connected by intercommunicating hatches in the dividing walls to facilitate communication between adjacent spaces.

Local climate

Llandaff Sub-Control Centre 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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