Central Workshops of City of Cardiff Operational Services. is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 November 1997. Workshop.
Central Workshops of City of Cardiff Operational Services.
- WRENN ID
- watchful-keep-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1997
- Type
- Workshop
- Address
- Central Workshops of City of Cardiff Operational Services., Grangetown
- OS grid reference
- ST 177 758
- Coordinates
- 51.47526, -3.18602
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Central Workshops of City of Cardiff Operational Services is a long, multi-gabled building constructed in red brick, featuring slate roofs with glass lights, stone copings, and kneelers. It has eleven gables, each with louvred oculi. Generally, each gable has two bays that contain two arched recesses with lunettes. The second and fifth gables include tall doors, and there is a large door located between gables nine and ten. To the left, there is an early 20th-century block that connects to a two-storey, four-window block also made of red brick. A short screen wall is present along the road. The building has a steel truss roof structure.
Local climate
Central Workshops of City of Cardiff Operational Services. 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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